"Universal" Electric Plug Teardown (4K)

I got this while in Thailand. It fits many of the most common plug types used in Asia including the US / North America type B with parallel flat blades (with ground), round pin German (with ground), some French types, and probably a few others. It does not work with square pins (England/Australia).

https://youtu.be/JvNKsQN5P-o


Made by Japanese company Panasonic, but NOT used in Japan (they use more like the US types)
Model: WEG 15929
1.5-4mm^2 solid copper only
250 volt
16 amp

This one was made in Thailand, but they are also made in Japan.

Common in Thailand (plus others), some use in Vietnam, some use in Cambodia,....

A good example of engineering; equally good representation of the 'works'. Even better evidence of a company pursuit of quality. Visible in serious wall thickness of molded parts, separate body clips and well developed internals.
Most impressed by those, the contacts; output of a fairly sophisticated dieset. Progressive dies convert endless rolls of flat stock into those components through blanking, piercing and forming.
The company reputation stands on product; not social agenda. Efficient, sturdy, long service life; no shortcuts, the kind of products not fully appreciated by consumers.

Great idea, in the right place. Got dragged into some labs in another part of our faculty a while back to inspect some cylinder regulators (one of my specialities), spotted a Euro mains plug forced into a UK mains socket to power up an experiment in a H.V. cage so oh the clever PhD s-too-dense didn't have to close the interlocked safety door which enabled the Euro socket the plug should have been in, allowing them to adjust things live, still it was only a 10KV experiment...