Posted: Jul 29, 2017 9:18 am
Nicko wrote:Actually never encountered this "plug falling out of socket" problem people here speak of. Might it be the diagonal upper prongs (obviously, in a non-grounded device, these are the only two prongs on the plug)?
I definitely had in it Vietnam, which uses French sockets, but in most cases, the older versions. It's not so much literally falling out of the socket, it's just not making a proper connection, so sparking when you first plug something in. I even had a plug with plastic around the prongs and the plastic melted because of the poor connection causing electricity to jump. And as I said earlier, you then have the cheap extension leads where your plug is often plugged in vertically and they are terrible for making a decent connection.