15:40 Swiss person here! These people have simply reached the end of their contract. In Switzerland, every citizen signs a contract with the state in exchange for peace and joy. When the contract expires, you have to float your way to the underground (that's where the breakers are by the way), and you get turned into gold and stored in a bank. That's why Switzerland is so rich and has such a small population.
Just for the ones not getting the joke: These people float home after work. Its a relaxing way to get home and the river is famousely extremely clean. They have these floating bags for their belongings with them.
Hi Mehdi, I'm a trained electrician in Switzerland, and your videos helped me pass my apprenticeship! To answer why Switzerland sometimes has two RCDs in parallel, it's due to selective protection. If there's a fault in one group, only that RCD will trip because they have different time delays. The smaller RCD typically trips within 30ms, while the larger 4-pole RCD is designed to trip at either 100ms or 300ms, ensuring the smaller one trips first. This setup prevents the entire system from shutting down when a fault occurs in just one group. If you have any further questions I'm glad to enlighten you on electrical installations in Switzerland, since it is quite different compared to even neighbouring country's.
Oh and I just Read some comments almost getting it correct, they mention the Current Delta being 300mA, not the delay. This doesn't make any sense, since the current in a ground fault can be 100s of Amps. This wouldn't insure the selectivity and all the groups would be without power. The reason some are 300mA is to protect typically a wooden building, If would get wet it can become a little bit conductive and after many months the would with char. As I'm sure you know coal is conductive, but it take more than 300mA to light it, this insure the house will not catch fire from electrical faults.
The way you describe this, I think you mean "parallel" and not, "in series". In parallel the fastest/most sensitive breaker would always trip first, and the slow one would never engage. With a serial connection of breakers it works as you describe.
@@MrTHEMADGUY I think you can say that about a lot of establishments, to be honest. Switzerland is just very proper, at least from my 22 year experience here lol
On the other side of the Alps is Austria where I have holidayed and I, despite being an electronic bench service engineer, had no interest in their mains electrical systems other than needing EU/UK plug adapters and they are 220-240V at 50Hz. Mehdi putting his family through this is hilarious. 🤣
@@Okurka. Interesting that the exact same chocolate is lower cost here in the USA than at home in Switzerland! Well they DO have free medical! Yep, free OK!
The GFCI with the yellow indicator is actually a combination of GFCI and normal braker and since you can either trip it with a ground fault or overload, it indicates the tripping reason with the yellow indicator where yellow stands for ground fault and white for overload
hi, swiss inhabitant here. breakers are usually on the basement or hidden in an admin room to keep nosy people like you from doing things they shouldn't :) also bathrooms have their own isolated circuit to avoid all room outage, just like you saw :)
@@Comrade_YG and that is the case, but hotels don't want people messing with breakers so they hide them away but every apartment i've ever seen has it's own breaker box and not just the bathroom has it's own breaker, usually most rooms are separated and even some individual outlets for higher power devices like washing machines and driers have their own breakers
Hi Swiss electician here. The outlet at 4 min. is called "Sidos" it's one of the rare ones that have ground fault protegtion integrated. We use them in switzerland, if we ad another outlet to an existing breaker which doesn't have ground fault protection. Outlets with child protection dors are extremely rare. The are only common in extension cords. I have never installed one in my 10 years as an electician. The Red Socket is called CEE32 it has 400V and is rated for 32A. The waterspouts are connected to ground for lightning protection reasons. 3 phases in one socket was rarely done earlyer in high current demanding places. For exampel a Restaurant Kitchen. But it is forbidden for over 10 years now.
You don't use three phase power for the kitchen? I thought it's standard everywhere in Europe. In Germany all stoves are usually directly hooked up to three phase with no plug so you're supposed to get an electrician to actually install and connect it.
@@gargoyle7863 400v three phase plugs are fairly usual, but 3 single phase sockets with each on a different phase are forbidden. You'd have 400v between two live conductors, so if someone was to push something in, like, say, a monstrosity composed of multimeter leads, crocodile clip, and euro-US adapter, they could have a nasty surprise.
Office wall conduits used to have 3 phase connections too. Remeber those Woerz flat ribbon cables that just ran trough them. Well have been in Switzerland in over 20 years, so I might be outdated :)
Office wall conduits used to have 3 phase connections too. Remeber those Woerz flat ribbon cables that just ran trough them. Well have been in Switzerland in over 20 years, so I might be outdated :)
Another swiss electrician here. The outlet you found outside in zurich at minute 4:00 with no voltage is a "Sinos"-outlet. This type of outlet has a built-in RCD. If you look closely you can see the yellow test-button and a black switch on top. So it was probably just off. And a funfact for you: The outlets that are flat are called "T12, Type 12". They are prohibited to install and sell new since 2017. Only the ones with the holes (called T13, Type 13) are allowed to newly install. The reason for it is that ,much like in america, the prongs are still touchable on the T12 when you plug them halfway in which can't happen with a T13.
If someone wants to google it: „Sidos“ is the correct term for the non-live socket you found outside. The plugs where changed together with the socket from flat T12 style to recessed T13 style. The plugs now have partly insulated live and neutral to make super-sure you can‘t touch anything live.
@@mernokimuvekYes but nobody does it because schuko is big, ugly and you only can mount single-sockets instead of the tripple-T13 swiss-sockets. Only advantage of the schuko is the slightly higher current capability. But here in switzerland we also have the T23 socket which is downwards compatible to T13 but can carry up to 16 amps.
Do I understand this right, you went to Geneva but did not visit the CERN??? You would have had a field day there, the cables they use for the LHC alone would have made the visit worth it for you
@@derek7808 To be honest, as a former Giger fan, 80% of anything Giger related would have to be censored. Yes, he did draw the aliens, but he also drew tons of incredibly obscene stuff.
@@kurtmueller2089 that's why we love our Hansruedi. Other boring artists: Hey I'll make an interesting alien. HR: Hey I make an interesting alien and make its head a dong!
Fun fact about CERN, it has it's own power delivery infrastructure, different from the city. It connects directly to two Nuclear reactors in france, to both of which it has exclusive rights. You heard that right, CERN uses the power output of two (albeit older) nuclear reactors. For that reason they schedule a two month long maintainance break in winter, to free up that power for heating and stuff.
@@derek7808I actually enjoyed the museum. Its not mindblowing, but as a Giger fanboy it was sufficient value. I was there like 12 years ago though, so maybe something has changed.
Hey it is not unexpected that the electrical systems here in Switzerland are in top shape. Even in private residential houses there are regular inspections. Every few years an electrical engineer/ electrician is sent by the state to check your system. And they are thorough. Its not just a visual inspection but also measuring everything and testing that every protective system works as it should
That's a great system but it doesn't necessarily imply that faults found during these inspections are actually fixed. I used to browse the web site of one of the major inspection agencies that had beautiful pictures of the most dangerous and in some cases creative wiring and in a few cases they noted that the same faults had been noted in several consecutive inspections. In neighbouring Austria at least we required landlords to have the electrics inspected at every change of tenants but that's not a whole lot considering many people stay in the same place for a long time and the law was only passed fairly recently.
stfu, there's like 5 people in Bern that actually use the river as a commute. It's so fucking dumb to paint this commute as some tradition, when it's just nice to go for a swim after work.
At 16:10 the connector is a standard 3P+E+N outlet which supplies ~400V between the phases and 240V between a phase and neutral, for anyone looking for it it's an IEC-60309. Also afaik the electrical code requires a single GFCI plug for apartment/hotel room in this case, but for the guest's convenience many hotel include several ones for a single room, eg. one for the washroom and one for the rest of the room. The double in-series GFCI is an additional safety feature but one of them should be a selective type.
They are three phase sockets, they vary because some have 4 pins (omitting neutral) and they also vary in diameter, the bigger the plug, the bigger the higher amperage it can sustain
@@spotless1337 He almost certainly does not have the kind of permit needed for places like the flights around Zürich Altstadt. They don't even like approving permits for licensed commercial operators in those areas.
That's interesting, as an American I knew that The citizens of Switzerland were referred to as "being Swiss" and "the Swiss" As in the Swiss people Though I've never known that a person from Switzerland refers to themselves as “ a Swiss” Thank you for teaching me something I did not know.
I'm an electrician from Switzerland. In my own home I do also have two RCDs in series. I rented an appartment once where I found out, that the RCD of the bathroom group did not work correctly anymore. Since I have kids I decided to prevent that from happening. Therefore I've installed two short time delayed RCDs (around 170ms) before the light groups. So half the house would be dark in case one of the RCBOs (around 25ms) would not work anymore. I checked all of them and they work indeed selective. Now I feel a lot calmer whenever they do anything with electricity involved. Ah, both of the RCD have 30mA tripping current. The selective ones with 300mA are only used in Switzerland on farms for fire prevention and also on solar powered houses when they make use of island mode. In this case, you would no longer have the short-circuit currents of the normal power grid.
Swiss citizen here, if you want to see some overhead lines besides high and very high voltage ones, you have to go in countryside or mountain villages, especially the ones with less tourism. But these lines won't be there for too long because some years ago the swiss federal government passed a law for which low and medium voltage lines must be all put underground, and that process is going on since then, with big cities putting a lot of effort in doing that. That's why you didn't see any in Zürich, Bern, Luzern, etc. Overhead lines are disappearing quite fast, and sometimes the process involves also high voltage lines under 100 kV too, altough as far as I know the burial for these is not mandatory. But is happening. As a guy who liked overhead lines since childhood for me that's a bit of a shame, but I understand that for the vast majority of the people overhead lines are an inconvenience, and for sure undergound ones are more reliable than overheads, especially during bad weather. I'm weird, I know xD Anyway, glad you liked our country :-D
Wouldn't underground transmission lines b less vulnerable to an EMP too? Like a solar storm.. or mayb since it's induction through magnetism the ground will not protect it.. I'm in Sweden and transmission lines have been disappearing here too for the last 25 yrs or so.
There are some issues with high voltage overhead lines, for one the EM radiation is intense enough to cause genetic defects with prolonged exposure. And when a line breaks that is a really dangerous and difficult situation.
The Freddie Mercury statue at 16:57 was installed in Montreux because he stayed there for quite some time, and Queen bought Mountain Recording Studio there. The last Queen album, Made In Heaven, was recorded there.
Small correction: Switzerland uses the "Type J" socket, which is almost but not fully compatible with the European "Type F / Schuko". The neutral pin is different; and European plugs can have slightly thicker pins that won't get into the Swiss socket. The reason the sockets are in group of three is for convenience, not having to have a multi-socket adapter/extension - and often one of the sockets is controlled remotely, to plug in a standing light.
just a thought - you could also spend a night at an airBNB, which are usually private apartments and houses, which can be wired differently and sometimes less professionally than decent big hotels, maybe more fun stuff to be discovered there :)
The sign instructed (in French) the hotel employees not to put stuff in front of the breaker locker so they are always accessible. In case Mehdi shows up. 😆
Heya, Dutch electrician here. The red 5 pole connector you saw in public is 400V 3-phase. (used to be 380V) It is Neutral, Earth and 3x live. This is to power industrial machinery, mainly big 3-phase motors such as pumps or other big moving machinery. It also allows a way higher current draw than a standard 240v single phase.
I am an electrical technician in Turkey, and I am also involved in tasks such as electronic board repair. Due to the current conditions in Turkey and the inflation that workers are experiencing, I intend to continue my profession in your country with a better standard of living. What do you think the living standards of electricians in your country are like? Can you buy a house or a car with your monthly income? For instance, in Turkey, even in cities with a small population, while the average salary is 20,000 Turkish Lira, houses cost 3,150,000 Turkish Lira. We are forced to spend 15,000 of that 20,000 income on living expenses, and as a young person, I cannot become a homeowner by saving 5,000 a türk lirası in this country. How are these matters in your country?"
Similarly, due to the tax policies implemented by the government, when buying a car, we end up buying 1.5 cars for the state with taxes. New cars coming out of the factory priced at 900,000 TL end up costing at least 1.5 million TL with taxes, and the sales price reaches anywhere from 1.7 million TL to 2 million TL. For this reason, I want to work as an electrician in your country and gradually assimilate into your culture and language. It is very difficult to make ends meet here."
And I am experiencing this situation as a single person. Unfortunately, if you have a spouse and children, your expenses increase significantly, and with your monthly income, you can barely make it to the end of the month and pay your rent."
@12:26 *walks past electrical cow fencing* @12:36 "Not one bit of loose electricity in sight" Don't dismiss the cow fencing like that, its shocks sting quite a bit!
@ElectroBOOM In Switzerland this Plugs outside are for Market. Mostly on Saturday the City can turn on this Plugs and you can plug in Fridge and Lights for the Market Stall. Or sometimes its for Chilbi XD
That makes good sense (but how do they meter them?). But it doesn't explain why there are no wires to the socket?, at least in the one Mehdi pulled from the wall.
@@Drew-Dastardly meter is probably inside somewhere. The socket he pulled from the wall was probably not used anymore so they removed the wires, don't know why they kept the socket though
@@Drew-Dastardly this one with no wires. Maybe only a dummy or an old House i think and an electrician has forgotten to wire this one. And the Big Red/white socket was one with 3 phases (400V) and 63A
I just assumed those sockets could be switched off from the inside (by the owner of the house) when not in use and are metered together with the rest of the house or with a separate meter for the individual outlet. But it could just as well all be centralized.
Yeah, you see them in some places in Germany too. And usually, if it's broken up like the one at that timestamp there's a good chance the splice wasn't super well secured and a thunderstrike blasted the two sides apart... tho ofc it also could've been an unruly person who just bent the thing out of shape...
@@einehrenmann6156 Yes, because we need to ground the metal pipe that goes under the ground. Lots of little stupidities like this because somebody somewhere messed it up for everyone else. :P
@@jimmio3727 Yes we need it. Because in the ground we have plastic or concrete pipes. And that metal pipe goes inside the ground pipe. So very often it never properly touches ground. The grounding wire makes sure there's ALWAYS a proper electric connection to ground.
I adore that even on vacation this cat is a Weirdo Electrical Man, disassembling the walls of his hotel rooms hunting for electrical outlets and breaker boards while his family looks on bemused, but tolerant of his antics also the little animation of the fam in the car going 'yaaahhhh!' between cities is adorable
It was a pleasure to have you in my country :) In our standards: * Power plugs are 10 amps (16 in France). * Flat power plugs are not allowed anymore in new constructions. (the 3x3 you display at the end). * The big "red" plug is CEE11 = 3 phases/11kW, you have CEE22 too. * Live is at the right of the V, neutral at left, earth in the middle. * The "plastic protection" in the wires is mandatory since a few years. * 30 mA default current is the standard.
Such a gorgeous country, I was in awe throughout the entire video at just how pretty every place is that Mehdi showed Also nice comment explaining the standard your country uses
3x3 are not allowed anymore?! Why?! It doesn’t make sense, its safety. (I live in an old building and my parents house is old as well, I’m not used to new constructions).
@@brunol-p_g8800 3x3 are allowed. Female plugs with a flat surface are not allowed (security) to be sold or installed. They can still be used. Male plugs without the small plastic protection in the live and neutral wire are not allowed to be sold or installed anymore.
I'm Swiss and even I am blown away by some of the beautiful footage you captured. Thank you for showing me this beauty of my country and distracting me from bad thoughts for a bit. I hope you enjoyed visiting my country.
I do have to add, that generally, it's illegal to fly drones above other people's property without permission in most of Europe and in many places in nature for nature and wildlife protection.
Interesting fact is that in most of Europe, law was tighten after 2022 because of russian spies and saboteurs who are spying everywhere, especially around weapon factories. Here in Czechia, one British youtuber was using drone in center of Prague and police later visited him in his hotel, so be careful, they have sensors and police drones now, when you fly close to parliament or castle with president, they will definitelly notice you.
Hey Mr. Electro, just a small reminder for you. If you wanna use a drone in Europe, there are very strict regulations. F.e. you prob. need a flying license and an insurance for your drone. So be careful, the fines are actually pretty high. And flying a drone in a city is also permitted if you don’t have permit for it. Keep safe and might the electro god be with you.
Was shoked to see you fly like this in the cities in switzerland. We have very good electrical standards and prette efficient police. You were lucked not to get caught.
I wonder how do they enforce there? I mean if you learn from ukraine how difficult it is for radars to detect such small drones, I would guess the only way to get busted is if someone reports you?
@@test-rj2vlin switzerland its frequent for a lot of people to report petty crimes. If you let your dog poop, park where you shouldnt,... the concierges even have the right to give you a ticket if you let your car in a spot owed by someone.
Good thing you mentioned electricity, because I live somewhat close to Basel, and for all I know, they have some of the biggest labs for pharmaceutical research and chemistry, and boy does it look like business is working for them.
Hello Mehdi! I am a Mechatronics student and I started watching you a couple of months into starting my course at uni. I just wanted to express how grateful I am for your videos as they helped me better understand the content and even taught me some additional things that came in handy during our labs. Right now I am on a trip going through switzerland except we skipped the swiss french part and went through the swiss italian part instead. I must recommend you and your family to visit Ticino in the future if you come to Switzerland again. Unfortunately I don't think you will find any swiss failures there either but it is beautiful and has good food!
It's a beautiful country, isn't it? A few answers to some questions: Breaker boxes are usually centrally located, somewhere on the ground floor or in the basement (where all the power lines come in). The outside sockets can usually be activated somewhere in the building, for when you want to run something like a market stall for example (we have markets in the streets sometimes). You pronounced Baden right the first time. People in Bern float around Bern - the river goes in a wide arc around most of the city, so you can get in at the top of the city and float until you reach the bottom. The triple socket layout is just because it makes it possible to connect 3 relatively clunky plugs without blocking the others, although very clunky plugs still do. The sockets being recessed is a safety feature so people don't touch the prongs when plugging something in (in addition to the partially plastic live and neutral prongs (the ground prong is entirely metal)). They're basically the standard now. Flat sockets are usually older ones.
On his north american adapter there is no ground prong and the prongs are entirely metal (no plastic) so you can insert halfway and touch it unless the outlet is recessed.
Tbh after working as a electrician since 2016 i have seen a lot of stuff that isnt up to code or straight up dangerous. There are a lot of factors for it but the biggest one is price gouging. A lot contracts are at a break even or at a loss for the company. That leads to stress, overworking and underpayment for the workers which leads to mistakes or straight up ignorance. Its like a house of cards, it still stands but if they continue to pile more on top it will collapse on itself. Worst of all since the pay is underperforming its less desirable to do a 3-4 year apprenticeship and many that try it either quit as an apprentice or change after a few years. The Unions try to change it but it takes a lot of time and pushback for a change. Its kinda depressing to know that such an essential and dangerous line of work is paid less than it actually should be.
I work as an electrical designer in industrial environments. The connector at 16:10 is known as a pin/ sleeve connector. They are usually used for 3 phase systems carrying high amperage. Notice the 5 pins (3 live, 1 neutral, and a ground). Not sure about European codes, but NEC codes here in the states prohibit how they are using it (as an extension to feed a facility). Also, it is not uncommon to find two breakers in series with one another. Usually one being for branch level protection, the other being supplementary. A direct short could trip both.
The colours indicate the voltage rating (the highest voltage present). Yellow is 120 V or less, blue is 230 and red is 400. There are some special colours like purple (I think 48 V) and green (non-standard frequency). Using these connectors to supply temporary structures (the one in the video looks like a container) is a perfectly acceptable application for them. 16 and 32 A are the two most common sizes, which are fairly similar in size, larger ones (up to 125 A) are fairly chunky. Single-phase ones are required for motorhomes and caravans all across Europe, so they're the European equivalent of the US RV plug. Don't expect anything like US RV power from a European camp site though - if you're unlucky all you get is 6 A at 230 V per site, just enough to run a few lights and charge batteries.
no we don't , this is a common misconception, I dont't know where this originated. While some people might take a dip in the river after work and indeed put their things in a waterproof bag while they are swimming, they then get out of the river and go home as everyone else would (bus, tram, bike etc,) There's very few people who live directly at the riverbank.
As noted, most power lines in Switzerland run underground. This was done for aesthetics, environmental protection, and reliability. By the 1970s, urban areas had their power lines buried, followed by rural areas by the 1990s.
As a swiss man I’m always amazed how apparent and messy electrical wires are in other countries. I have no knowledge in electrical technology but I always point out to my American wife, when traveling in foreign countries, how bizarre it is to see all those electrical wires running along buildings walls and being connected in huge messy ways on the outdoors facades of buildings without any protection😮. In Switzerland you see no wires showing on buildings and I find that absolutely normal. By the way , do you know what that sign means ⛔️? 😂
@@AarishRaja-kj8ic That's where it comes from: "Blitz" = "bolt of lightning", "Krieg" = "war" - "war that's over as quick as a bolt of lightning". Didn't quite work out that way...
Hey Mehdi! At 16:11 ,the five - pin socket is for a three - phase plug. It is a European standard. The pin configuration is L1, L2, L3, Neutral and Ground with clockwise orientation.
There's a lot of broken drone laws in this video. (You can't fly anything with a camera over houses in switzerland ) Nice to see you visited our beautiful country!
@@PR0_404 The weight alone doesn't determine the legality. As soon as you have a drone with video/picture taking capability, strict regulations are in place. Also, privacy laws in Switzerland are very extensive. It not just forbidden to film "the inside of the house", but generally all pictures in public places, where the face of someone is recognizable.
13:30 The yellow thing is because it is a combination breaker. When the yellow thing shows it means the breaker popped because of earth leakage. When it is not there, it is overcurrent. It is quite normal to see in many countries in Europe. It shows when you press the test button, because that is what you test. Two breakers with earth protection in series is a bit strange, I agree. But probably because you tripped a larger breaker which goes to multiple room, and they just used a combination breaker on both.
You may not have noticed it but the ITU headquarters is right across the road from the UN. Will be traveling there in Oct for some ITU meetings. This is organization that manages the radio regulations and various recommendations for how to use radio frequencies among other things. Always enjoy visiting Geneva.
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IEC is even nearer, the International Electrotechnical Commission. ISO has moved a bit away from the standards triangle. I worked there many years ago.
I tried that once just to see if it was possible, you actually need to put in a lot of effort to plug something in that way, you will also slightly bend the pins in doing so.
And the fact that this is possible is why I would call this socket design bad. It's seriously quite confusing to someone not familiar with it, so many random holes. I like the way they offer three sockets rotated 120 degrees from each other, but the recessed version is better because it guides you into how you're supposed to plug things in.
it really isn’t „possible“ chances are the socket breaks, pins bend etc. you need to push very hard - tough many have probably tried. I tried once and ripped out the socket cover trying to remove it again
😂😂😂 about the only thing that is in Switzerland. I remember being charged for tap water at a restaurant. Not bottled water, tap water. And it was more expensive than the wine
@@marcm. Yeah, this can be shocking for tourists. A good restaurant should inform you when ordering tap water. The reason they charge for tap water is because restaurants in switzerland make the bulk of their money with drinks. Food is almost a net zero for them. So if you go eat and drink free water they dont make money. If they had to make money with food it would be so expensive nobody would ever eat out.
@@marcm. If you want free water order "tap water", not "water". If they ask "still" or "sparkling" water, you answer "tap", not "still". You _will_ get your tap water for free. If you give them the opportunity to upcharge you, they _will._ But they are legally obligated to give you tap water, if you ask for it. (Well, any place that has an alcohol license is obligated. But there are basically 0 restaurants without an alcohol license in Europe.)
hi as a swiss person all our power lines are safe and sound underground! on some really, really old and remote places have powerlines up in the open to the house but often times its not even power but an old telephone cable. only powerlines above are are the massive ones from the power plants going to regional transformers and for infrastructure like trains and trams. usually multiple rooms in a house will be on the same breaker but things like the kitchen and the room where the washer/dryer stands.
It's really great as a Swiss/German/Austrian to live in a place with 0 chance of earthquakes. So we can put all our stuff in a hole and not worry about it coming back out.
It's more that Sitzerland hides its imperfections away from touristy/expensive places. From the window of my appartment in Geneva, in the inner courtyard of my building, I can see at least 6 loose wires hanging from the rooftop that lead to nothing at all.
@@IStMl As someone who has both Swiss and French citizenship, as well as experience living in both countries, Geneva is really nothing like France. But hey that's a classic Swiss cultural trait: if anything seems out of the ordinary, blame foreign influences!
@ElectroBOOM The yellow indicator shows that the FI/LS (RCD+13A C characteristic breaker) tripped due to a ground fault. If the fault had been caused by overcurrent, the breaker would have still tripped, but the yellow indicator would not have shown. Regarding the two RCDs in series, the logical reason for this setup is to have one RCD rated at 400mA to protect against stray currents, which could cause a faulted cable to start a fire, and a 30mA RCD to protect against potentially lethal electrical shocks to people. Another reason is to provide backup protection. If the first RCD has an issue and doesn’t trip, the second one will, typically with a time delay. This delay is necessary to avoid both RCDs tripping simultaneously.
the high voltage connection was a 3 phase line... 230V between each phase and neutral and 400V between the phases, pretty much every home has one for the stove/oven
As a french person living in annecy and studying in Lyon, I'm happy you liked our city and our food! Also, the cables everywhere is something i've never notice but i think that now that you've pointed it out, i won't unsee it. Anyways, i hope you'll come back here for another great video!
Just and advice for people visiting switzerland. Don't rent a car, take the train. You can go to almost every town by public transports. Maybe rent a car if you want to go to lost places in the mountains.
@@versedbridge4007 😂😂SBB awards itself the title of best public transport in the world...... It's a little bit better in the German part, but in Romandie, we have every day some delays... and cancellations.... Bern -> Zürich is 53chf per person .... rent a car cost 120chf for 1 days....
Yeah always bothers me when I see videos of people visiting here and renting a car. I would say taking the train is also a part of experiencing the country!
That big red connector is an CEE connector, it has 400 Volts running through it, but they can have different Amp ratings and they you have a 4 and 5 pin version and it has 3 phases
I lived in Switzerland for 2 years and am back home in the USA now and I wish our government was like yours. I was really impressed with how the government is run there, people’s votes in Switzerland actually matter but here in the US our votes literally do nothing (representative democracy). Loved Switzerland and hope to get a 2nd home there, I actually think Switzerland is better than the U.S. quality of live is definitely better there than here.
Hello, I'm from Switzerland and I can explain the ground wire to you! it's a lightning rod! ;) to make energetic water... 😂 Thank you for coming to check the Swiss electrical system. Only good to you
creepy vibes in the hallway at 2:27 there looks like there is someone at the end of the hallway and 2:35, when he walks past the door there looks like a human silhouette in the middle of the room and its gone when he looks back into the room
There are 2 RCD's in series because of something called Selectivity. Based on the severeness of the ground fault it tripps the RCD's farther away from the cause. The other RCD that tripped outside of your room must be a RCD with a max fault current of 300mA used for fire protection. Every line section between fuse panels has to be protected against overload and short circuit. Every pluggable connection in switzerland must be RCD protected. Most modern installations use a RCD for every Room or Section of the building so finding faults is made easier.
16:00 This is a high power outlet for construction work 16:40 This is the grounding wire for a lightning rod, to protect the buildings from lightning strikes
generally speaking its high power outlets, there is the blue ones and red ones, idk about english but in german its called industriesteckdose (industrial outlet)
Blue CEE Plugs are single phase 230V, 16 or 32 Amps. Red CEE Plugs are three phase 16, 32, 63 & 125 Amps. In Switzerland we also have T15 & T25: these are three phase 10A/16A sockets/plugs, where the sockets are also backwards compatible (for example with the T23 single phase 16A plug, T13 single phase 10A plug, Euro plug etc…
At 16:00: Looks like the 32A (or 63A) version of CEE-outlet - the amps are per phase/line. At a "normal" power outlet the max-current is 10A to 16A, depending on national regulations and power outlet used, etc. Voltage in Europe is nominal 230V (±10%) from between a phase-line and neutral-line and 400V between two phases. Two phases have shift of 120°, each. Neutral is grounded at the transformer and additionally you have safety-ground, grounded at your building.
@@moatl6945no, wether neutral is grounded at the transformer center, wether the ground/earth is combined with the neutral until the house is fully dependent on the net design: TNC systems have a grounded neutral: Terre Neutre Combiné. TNCS (Terre Neutre Combine séparée) have a grounded neutral until it enters the house, where the grounded neutral is split to neutral and ground. (Necessary for RCD‘s / RCBO‘s to work…). Most new electricity networks are TNS (Terre Neutre Séparée) though: Earth and Neutral are separated at the transformer already…)This, in combination with the earth being grounded at every house while the neutral not grounded at the houses, results in tiny voltage imbalances between the two. This is why when you bridge neutral and ground, you will probably trip the RCBO/RCD
15:44 in the summer lots of people travel home from work in the river, its like a tradition, the thing they hold on to is like a waterproof backpack that holds their clothes and other things inside
Pay Attention while opening firehose Compartments. Sometimes they trigger the Firealarm and at least in Germany the smallest Firetrian will cost you 800€.
21:00 that is an outdated standard of electrical socket. A little history: The socket of the old standard (1950s or so) were flush like the ones presented, and the prongs were metal all the way to the plug body, which presented a very significant safety issue as you could easily have a half-way in plug and inadvertently touch the exposed live metal pins. To rectify this issue, a new standard was introduced which ensured safety two-folds: 1) The new socket is recessed, meaning that the connector fully covers the hole before the metal prongs become live. 2) The new plugs have half-way insulated pins, meaning that once the plug is inserted enough to establish an electrical connection, the metal no longer is exposed. You may be wondering, why the effort for this pointless redundancy? Simple: this is so that new plugs are safe with old sockets, and old plugs are safe with new sockets. It would be impossible to mandate the change of all existing sockets and plugs, so the swiss regulating body just prohibited the sale and installation of the old standard. Since the new standard guarantees "backwards-compatible safety", the issue resolves fairly quickly as houses are renovated and appliances replaced. Since appliances are replaced more often than sockets, safety improves in the timespan of years instead of decades. However, here you were using an old plug with an old socket, so it was unsafe. Cheap adapters are notoriously bad at coping with the newer recessed standard, and are equally bad at complying with the plastic cover requirement. The one you used would be banned from being sold in Switzerland. This is the one complaint you could have had during this trip: the hotel was using an outdated plug-socket standard. Addendum: this is not the complete picture, as I haven't mentioned an in-between standard which mandated recessed sockets, but not partially insulated pins. This socket type was only mandated in kitchens/bathrooms/workplaces, where wetted hands could be expected, and furthermore did not prevent electrical shocks when plugging into old standard sockets. The new standard mandates recessed plugs everywhere, and partially insulated connectors, ensuring safety in all possible plug-socket combinations where at least one is new. You can see this standard in the hotel-provided adapter seen slightly before the given timestamp: it is compatible with recessed sockets, but does not have any insulation. Look up the plugsocketmuseum for pictures and details.
Swiss sockets have a lot of story. When you see single sockets for instance in a basement, the ground pin is at the lowest position - so that if the basement floods the water hits ground first. Also the ground pin defines the location of neutral and life, since the plug cant be reverse. There is a combination of the 3 pin, where they added two more flat pins, allowing 3 phase on a very compact socket. Where you can plug a regular plug, but also a 3 phase plug. Very useful under kitchen counters for dish washers etc..
Mehdi watch out if you have a drone over 250g you need to have a license and you are not allowed to film people if they don’t want to, you can get arrested. Swiss people have alot of regulations and laws.
@@Sakatlandwell i have the license and if you film from far away or don’t try to fly it and film really obvious Peoples faces they won’t say anything. But we also habe Karen’s and i had some trouble with these people.
Lots of places he was at, it's illegal to fly drones. Can't do it in the old town of Bern or in Gruyères (because of local airfields) nor at Grindelwald First or Montreux (because of wildlife protection)
I watched this brilliant video in a hotel room in Zurich at 04:00 because I couldn't sleep. So funny to see you in Europe and very nice drone videos! Love your work.
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The outlet
15:40 Swiss person here! These people have simply reached the end of their contract.
In Switzerland, every citizen signs a contract with the state in exchange for peace and joy. When the contract expires, you have to float your way to the underground (that's where the breakers are by the way), and you get turned into gold and stored in a bank.
That's why Switzerland is so rich and has such a small population.
ahahah. That is a nice one. I wanna sign up too. What is the duration of the contract?
@@IoT_Its 20 years standard, but you can buy an extension of 5 years for your entire body weight in gold. (Thats why we have no obesity problem)
It just keeps getting better @@jolly3807
WELCOME TO THE UNDERGROUND
Just for the ones not getting the joke: These people float home after work. Its a relaxing way to get home and the river is famousely extremely clean. They have these floating bags for their belongings with them.
Hi Mehdi, I'm a trained electrician in Switzerland, and your videos helped me pass my apprenticeship! To answer why Switzerland sometimes has two RCDs in parallel, it's due to selective protection. If there's a fault in one group, only that RCD will trip because they have different time delays. The smaller RCD typically trips within 30ms, while the larger 4-pole RCD is designed to trip at either 100ms or 300ms, ensuring the smaller one trips first. This setup prevents the entire system from shutting down when a fault occurs in just one group. If you have any further questions I'm glad to enlighten you on electrical installations in Switzerland, since it is quite different compared to even neighbouring country's.
Oh and I just Read some comments almost getting it correct, they mention the Current Delta being 300mA, not the delay. This doesn't make any sense, since the current in a ground fault can be 100s of Amps. This wouldn't insure the selectivity and all the groups would be without power. The reason some are 300mA is to protect typically a wooden building, If would get wet it can become a little bit conductive and after many months the would with char. As I'm sure you know coal is conductive, but it take more than 300mA to light it, this insure the house will not catch fire from electrical faults.
yeah, funnily i heard that 230v * 300ma is not enough for fire to start. needs power to ignite it. yet, this isn't major cause of fires
Unfortunately it seems they messed that up in the hotel he was in, as it did take out the main circuit.
The way you describe this, I think you mean "parallel" and not, "in series". In parallel the fastest/most sensitive breaker would always trip first, and the slow one would never engage.
With a serial connection of breakers it works as you describe.
the rcd with the additional time delay has a specific symbol on it, to differentiate it from a normal one easily it’s an „s“ in a square.
Mehdi: We're going to Switzerland!
Switzerland hotels: *Hide the breakers! All of them!*
Swiss citizen here. Not trying to flex, but... I would rather say:
Switzerland hotels: grabs popcorn
@@MrTHEMADGUY I think you can say that about a lot of establishments, to be honest. Switzerland is just very proper, at least from my 22 year experience here lol
I hope he does not give France enough time to hide all their breakers and fix their electrical problems.
They are hidden in a locked technical room, it's the case for many hotels, especially big chains.
@@FLPhotoCatcher don't worry, it's france, they'll never fix anything
Don’t try this at home!
Mehdi: It’s all good, I’m not at home.
Normal People: Goes to Switzerland to see the Alps and beautiful country.
Mehdi: WHERE'S THE BREAKER!?
It's an easy way to make the family vacation tax deductible XD
Chad people go there to swim in their lakes 😂
And buy too expensive chocolate.
On the other side of the Alps is Austria where I have holidayed and I, despite being an electronic bench service engineer, had no interest in their mains electrical systems other than needing EU/UK plug adapters and they are 220-240V at 50Hz.
Mehdi putting his family through this is hilarious. 🤣
@@Okurka. Interesting that the exact same chocolate is lower cost here in the USA than at home in Switzerland! Well they DO have free medical! Yep, free OK!
The GFCI with the yellow indicator is actually a combination of GFCI and normal braker and since you can either trip it with a ground fault or overload, it indicates the tripping reason with the yellow indicator where yellow stands for ground fault and white for overload
18:02
how did you comment 5 hours ago even though this vid for me was released 28 mins ago?
@@scp-173mememode6channel members get access ahead of time.
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@@scp-173mememode6They are released to Playlists sometimes first. The exact same way he commented on his own video first
hi, swiss inhabitant here. breakers are usually on the basement or hidden in an admin room to keep nosy people like you from doing things they shouldn't :)
also bathrooms have their own isolated circuit to avoid all room outage, just like you saw :)
Thats dumb, each apartment should have its own circuit breakers in it.
@@Comrade_YG Those are not apartments - so much for being dumb.
@@Comrade_YG why
@@Comrade_YG In a hotel they arent, regular apartments have separate ones
@@Comrade_YG and that is the case, but hotels don't want people messing with breakers so they hide them away
but every apartment i've ever seen has it's own breaker box
and not just the bathroom has it's own breaker, usually most rooms are separated and even some individual outlets for higher power devices like washing machines and driers have their own breakers
Switzerland has to be my favourite of all the countries I've visited. It's expensive but beautiful and the infrasturcture is amazing
Hi Swiss electician here.
The outlet at 4 min. is called "Sidos" it's one of the rare ones that have ground fault protegtion integrated. We use them in switzerland, if we ad another outlet to an existing breaker which doesn't have ground fault protection.
Outlets with child protection dors are extremely rare. The are only common in extension cords. I have never installed one in my 10 years as an electician.
The Red Socket is called CEE32 it has 400V and is rated for 32A.
The waterspouts are connected to ground for lightning protection reasons.
3 phases in one socket was rarely done earlyer in high current demanding places. For exampel a Restaurant Kitchen. But it is forbidden for over 10 years now.
Why all the 3 phase fun is verboten these days? 😑
You don't use three phase power for the kitchen? I thought it's standard everywhere in Europe.
In Germany all stoves are usually directly hooked up to three phase with no plug so you're supposed to get an electrician to actually install and connect it.
@@gargoyle7863 400v three phase plugs are fairly usual, but 3 single phase sockets with each on a different phase are forbidden. You'd have 400v between two live conductors, so if someone was to push something in, like, say, a monstrosity composed of multimeter leads, crocodile clip, and euro-US adapter, they could have a nasty surprise.
Office wall conduits used to have 3 phase connections too. Remeber those Woerz flat ribbon cables that just ran trough them. Well have been in Switzerland in over 20 years, so I might be outdated :)
Office wall conduits used to have 3 phase connections too. Remeber those Woerz flat ribbon cables that just ran trough them. Well have been in Switzerland in over 20 years, so I might be outdated :)
Another swiss electrician here. The outlet you found outside in zurich at minute 4:00 with no voltage is a "Sinos"-outlet. This type of outlet has a built-in RCD. If you look closely you can see the yellow test-button and a black switch on top. So it was probably just off. And a funfact for you: The outlets that are flat are called "T12, Type 12". They are prohibited to install and sell new since 2017. Only the ones with the holes (called T13, Type 13) are allowed to newly install. The reason for it is that ,much like in america, the prongs are still touchable on the T12 when you plug them halfway in which can't happen with a T13.
If someone wants to google it: „Sidos“ is the correct term for the non-live socket you found outside. The plugs where changed together with the socket from flat T12 style to recessed T13 style. The plugs now have partly insulated live and neutral to make super-sure you can‘t touch anything live.
Is it allowed to install Schuko in Switzerland?
@@mernokimuvekif der is allso as swiss outlet next to it
@@mernokimuvekYes but nobody does it because schuko is big, ugly and you only can mount single-sockets instead of the tripple-T13 swiss-sockets. Only advantage of the schuko is the slightly higher current capability. But here in switzerland we also have the T23 socket which is downwards compatible to T13 but can carry up to 16 amps.
@@RaivooCH lamao, Shucko is not ugly, its the most beautiful plug in the world. You want an ugly plug? The UK has the ugliest plug in history.
Do I understand this right, you went to Geneva but did not visit the CERN???
You would have had a field day there, the cables they use for the LHC alone would have made the visit worth it for you
Also visited Gruyère but not the HR Giger museum !
@@derek7808 To be honest, as a former Giger fan, 80% of anything Giger related would have to be censored. Yes, he did draw the aliens, but he also drew tons of incredibly obscene stuff.
@@kurtmueller2089 that's why we love our Hansruedi. Other boring artists: Hey I'll make an interesting alien. HR: Hey I make an interesting alien and make its head a dong!
Fun fact about CERN, it has it's own power delivery infrastructure, different from the city. It connects directly to two Nuclear reactors in france, to both of which it has exclusive rights. You heard that right, CERN uses the power output of two (albeit older) nuclear reactors. For that reason they schedule a two month long maintainance break in winter, to free up that power for heating and stuff.
@@derek7808I actually enjoyed the museum. Its not mindblowing, but as a Giger fanboy it was sufficient value. I was there like 12 years ago though, so maybe something has changed.
Hey it is not unexpected that the electrical systems here in Switzerland are in top shape. Even in private residential houses there are regular inspections. Every few years an electrical engineer/ electrician is sent by the state to check your system. And they are thorough. Its not just a visual inspection but also measuring everything and testing that every protective system works as it should
That's a great system but it doesn't necessarily imply that faults found during these inspections are actually fixed. I used to browse the web site of one of the major inspection agencies that had beautiful pictures of the most dangerous and in some cases creative wiring and in a few cases they noted that the same faults had been noted in several consecutive inspections. In neighbouring Austria at least we required landlords to have the electrics inspected at every change of tenants but that's not a whole lot considering many people stay in the same place for a long time and the law was only passed fairly recently.
15:41 How to get home after work in Summer? Bring your Waterproof Bag, store your Goods, have a swim and arrive at home refreshed and full of joy.
stfu, there's like 5 people in Bern that actually use the river as a commute. It's so fucking dumb to paint this commute as some tradition, when it's just nice to go for a swim after work.
*must live down-river.
Actually yes, sometimes i do that ;D
If you live upriver, it's the way to work
I used to go to school 'riding' the river in the morning ;)
At 16:10 the connector is a standard 3P+E+N outlet which supplies ~400V between the phases and 240V between a phase and neutral, for anyone looking for it it's an IEC-60309.
Also afaik the electrical code requires a single GFCI plug for apartment/hotel room in this case, but for the guest's convenience many hotel include several ones for a single room, eg. one for the washroom and one for the rest of the room. The double in-series GFCI is an additional safety feature but one of them should be a selective type.
In the UK yellow is for 110v blue is 250 and red is three phase
Good old Starkstromanschluss.
CTRL-F 400V and that questions was answered better than I would have energy to answer. Well done!
They are three phase sockets, they vary because some have 4 pins (omitting neutral) and they also vary in diameter, the bigger the plug, the bigger the higher amperage it can sustain
I'm now wondering, if the three phases are used to power a 3 phase motor, would you say it's 230, 400 or 0 V? 😂
As a Swiss, I couldn’t stop to think : “omg, he’s not supposed to fly drone over here…” 😅🇨🇭
Question from Germany: Does he have a permit todo that
@@spotless1337 He almost certainly does not have the kind of permit needed for places like the flights around Zürich Altstadt. They don't even like approving permits for licensed commercial operators in those areas.
Nearly all his drone flight were illegal. You can't fly over people.
Ah, the good ol' drone police!
That's interesting, as an American I knew that The citizens of Switzerland were referred to as "being Swiss" and "the Swiss" As in the Swiss people Though I've never known that a person from Switzerland refers to themselves as “ a Swiss” Thank you for teaching me something I did not know.
I'm an electrician from Switzerland. In my own home I do also have two RCDs in series. I rented an appartment once where I found out, that the RCD of the bathroom group did not work correctly anymore. Since I have kids I decided to prevent that from happening. Therefore I've installed two short time delayed RCDs (around 170ms) before the light groups. So half the house would be dark in case one of the RCBOs (around 25ms) would not work anymore. I checked all of them and they work indeed selective. Now I feel a lot calmer whenever they do anything with electricity involved.
Ah, both of the RCD have 30mA tripping current. The selective ones with 300mA are only used in Switzerland on farms for fire prevention and also on solar powered houses when they make use of island mode. In this case, you would no longer have the short-circuit currents of the normal power grid.
Swiss citizen here, if you want to see some overhead lines besides high and very high voltage ones, you have to go in countryside or mountain villages, especially the ones with less tourism. But these lines won't be there for too long because some years ago the swiss federal government passed a law for which low and medium voltage lines must be all put underground, and that process is going on since then, with big cities putting a lot of effort in doing that. That's why you didn't see any in Zürich, Bern, Luzern, etc.
Overhead lines are disappearing quite fast, and sometimes the process involves also high voltage lines under 100 kV too, altough as far as I know the burial for these is not mandatory. But is happening.
As a guy who liked overhead lines since childhood for me that's a bit of a shame, but I understand that for the vast majority of the people overhead lines are an inconvenience, and for sure undergound ones are more reliable than overheads, especially during bad weather. I'm weird, I know xD
Anyway, glad you liked our country :-D
🎉 Schöne Abig 😂
While its nice to not see them, that seems a huge waste of money. It makes repairs/upgrades a ton more expensive too.
Wouldn't underground transmission lines b less vulnerable to an EMP too? Like a solar storm.. or mayb since it's induction through magnetism the ground will not protect it..
I'm in Sweden and transmission lines have been disappearing here too for the last 25 yrs or so.
There are some issues with high voltage overhead lines, for one the EM radiation is intense enough to cause genetic defects with prolonged exposure. And when a line breaks that is a really dangerous and difficult situation.
@@alexatkin In Switzerland money is not really an issue, especially for public infrastructure
The Freddie Mercury statue at 16:57 was installed in Montreux because he stayed there for quite some time, and Queen bought Mountain Recording Studio there. The last Queen album, Made In Heaven, was recorded there.
Smoke on the water . ..
@@apostolakisl Thats not from Queen and Queen wasnt involved. It was Zappa and his band burning down a Casino with a flare gun
I think it was not grounded!
@@nox5555 nonetheless, it was Montreaux.
Sorry for that but that statue ırrevelant for swiss and non sense
Small correction: Switzerland uses the "Type J" socket, which is almost but not fully compatible with the European "Type F / Schuko". The neutral pin is different; and European plugs can have slightly thicker pins that won't get into the Swiss socket. The reason the sockets are in group of three is for convenience, not having to have a multi-socket adapter/extension - and often one of the sockets is controlled remotely, to plug in a standing light.
there is a lot of patriotism involved with wall sockets :D
Type F will get into Swiss sockets, you only need to push and wiggle kinda hard lol
Type J is best: compact and has most important safety features
The remote socket is often (not always, GRR…) marked.
hm, never had any issues in Europe.
just a thought - you could also spend a night at an airBNB, which are usually private apartments and houses, which can be wired differently and sometimes less professionally than decent big hotels, maybe more fun stuff to be discovered there :)
I think the *only* electrical security issue in Swiss at that time was Mehdi himself.
22:26 There is a huge ⛔ sign on the door
Electroboom: Let's try to open it
The sign acutally sais not to put anything infront of the door to keep it accessible.
Imagine one day someone catchs him
So it is a one-way street?
The sign instructed (in French) the hotel employees not to put stuff in front of the breaker locker so they are always accessible. In case Mehdi shows up. 😆
If he ignored the yellow sticker that warns about a possible attack by Zeus, why would he be scared of a simple prohibited sign? 😃
Heya, Dutch electrician here. The red 5 pole connector you saw in public is 400V 3-phase. (used to be 380V) It is Neutral, Earth and 3x live.
This is to power industrial machinery, mainly big 3-phase motors such as pumps or other big moving machinery. It also allows a way higher current draw than a standard 240v single phase.
Also most ovens/stoves in households are powered by 3-phase, as well as things like table-saws, welding machines etc.
For those who want to read up on how this works. IEC 60309 is the standard and the color is part of the spec.
I am an electrical technician in Turkey, and I am also involved in tasks such as electronic board repair. Due to the current conditions in Turkey and the inflation that workers are experiencing, I intend to continue my profession in your country with a better standard of living. What do you think the living standards of electricians in your country are like? Can you buy a house or a car with your monthly income? For instance, in Turkey, even in cities with a small population, while the average salary is 20,000 Turkish Lira, houses cost 3,150,000 Turkish Lira. We are forced to spend 15,000 of that 20,000 income on living expenses, and as a young person, I cannot become a homeowner by saving 5,000 a türk lirası in this country. How are these matters in your country?"
Similarly, due to the tax policies implemented by the government, when buying a car, we end up buying 1.5 cars for the state with taxes. New cars coming out of the factory priced at 900,000 TL end up costing at least 1.5 million TL with taxes, and the sales price reaches anywhere from 1.7 million TL to 2 million TL. For this reason, I want to work as an electrician in your country and gradually assimilate into your culture and language. It is very difficult to make ends meet here."
And I am experiencing this situation as a single person. Unfortunately, if you have a spouse and children, your expenses increase significantly, and with your monthly income, you can barely make it to the end of the month and pay your rent."
@12:26 *walks past electrical cow fencing*
@12:36 "Not one bit of loose electricity in sight"
Don't dismiss the cow fencing like that, its shocks sting quite a bit!
its about 6kv, and it hurts a lot if you have a decent ground.
@ElectroBOOM In Switzerland this Plugs outside are for Market. Mostly on Saturday the City can turn on this Plugs and you can plug in Fridge and Lights for the Market Stall. Or sometimes its for Chilbi XD
That makes good sense (but how do they meter them?). But it doesn't explain why there are no wires to the socket?, at least in the one Mehdi pulled from the wall.
@@Drew-Dastardly meter is probably inside somewhere.
The socket he pulled from the wall was probably not used anymore so they removed the wires, don't know why they kept the socket though
@@Drew-Dastardly I would guess the plugs are metered at a central point or they just have a fee for the market that covers the electricity bill
@@Drew-Dastardly this one with no wires. Maybe only a dummy or an old House i think and an electrician has forgotten to wire this one. And the Big Red/white socket was one with 3 phases (400V) and 63A
I just assumed those sockets could be switched off from the inside (by the owner of the house) when not in use and are metered together with the rest of the house or with a separate meter for the individual outlet. But it could just as well all be centralized.
16:44 The grounding wire on the rainwater pipe is for the lightning rod, it uses the metal tubes as a wire/part of the lighning rod
All metal constructions of buildings need to be grounded as per swiss code. That includes all Piping.
Yeah, you see them in some places in Germany too. And usually, if it's broken up like the one at that timestamp there's a good chance the splice wasn't super well secured and a thunderstrike blasted the two sides apart... tho ofc it also could've been an unruly person who just bent the thing out of shape...
@@einehrenmann6156 Yes, because we need to ground the metal pipe that goes under the ground. Lots of little stupidities like this because somebody somewhere messed it up for everyone else. :P
@@jimmio3727 We don't make the rules, we just follow them and drown our sorrows with a cold after work beer.
@@jimmio3727 Yes we need it. Because in the ground we have plastic or concrete pipes. And that metal pipe goes inside the ground pipe. So very often it never properly touches ground. The grounding wire makes sure there's ALWAYS a proper electric connection to ground.
18:30 He couldn't find an electrical hazard, so he made his own
Impressive that Mehdi didn't manage to get arrested, pretty sure he broke quite a few laws, mostly with the drone lol
I adore that even on vacation this cat is a Weirdo Electrical Man, disassembling the walls of his hotel rooms hunting for electrical outlets and breaker boards while his family looks on bemused, but tolerant of his antics
also the little animation of the fam in the car going 'yaaahhhh!' between cities is adorable
How else is he going to write off his vacation when tax time comes around?
It was a pleasure to have you in my country :)
In our standards:
* Power plugs are 10 amps (16 in France).
* Flat power plugs are not allowed anymore in new constructions. (the 3x3 you display at the end).
* The big "red" plug is CEE11 = 3 phases/11kW, you have CEE22 too.
* Live is at the right of the V, neutral at left, earth in the middle.
* The "plastic protection" in the wires is mandatory since a few years.
* 30 mA default current is the standard.
We say "ground" not "earth", otherwise nice comment :)
Such a gorgeous country, I was in awe throughout the entire video at just how pretty every place is that Mehdi showed
Also nice comment explaining the standard your country uses
3x3 are not allowed anymore?!
Why?!
It doesn’t make sense, its safety.
(I live in an old building and my parents house is old as well, I’m not used to new constructions).
3x3 is allowed but they must be recessed, flat is not allowed anymore@@brunol-p_g8800
@@brunol-p_g8800 3x3 are allowed. Female plugs with a flat surface are not allowed (security) to be sold or installed. They can still be used. Male plugs without the small plastic protection in the live and neutral wire are not allowed to be sold or installed anymore.
I'm Swiss and even I am blown away by some of the beautiful footage you captured. Thank you for showing me this beauty of my country and distracting me from bad thoughts for a bit. I hope you enjoyed visiting my country.
I do have to add, that generally, it's illegal to fly drones above other people's property without permission in most of Europe and in many places in nature for nature and wildlife protection.
Yea that bothered me too.
Interesting fact is that in most of Europe, law was tighten after 2022 because of russian spies and saboteurs who are spying everywhere, especially around weapon factories. Here in Czechia, one British youtuber was using drone in center of Prague and police later visited him in his hotel, so be careful, they have sensors and police drones now, when you fly close to parliament or castle with president, they will definitelly notice you.
18:02 Getting a 230V shock made him German all of a sudden
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
How would you think we reproduce? Since Germans are bad at sex, there has to be another way to make more of us ;-)
He is used to the Micky Mouse 110Vsystem
@@benyomovod6904 👍
why didn't the RCD trip??
😂 searching for failures in Switzerland, finally finding them - in France 😂
no failure in France either! just ugly apparent wire. Every outlet is on GFCI, but if not, even the oldest power counter would trip at 300mA.
Hey Mr. Electro, just a small reminder for you. If you wanna use a drone in Europe, there are very strict regulations. F.e. you prob. need a flying license and an insurance for your drone. So be careful, the fines are actually pretty high. And flying a drone in a city is also permitted if you don’t have permit for it. Keep safe and might the electro god be with you.
Was shoked to see you fly like this in the cities in switzerland. We have very good electrical standards and prette efficient police. You were lucked not to get caught.
I wonder how do they enforce there? I mean if you learn from ukraine how difficult it is for radars to detect such small drones, I would guess the only way to get busted is if someone reports you?
@@test-rj2vleither that or police catches you red-handed.
Who askd
@@test-rj2vlin switzerland its frequent for a lot of people to report petty crimes.
If you let your dog poop, park where you shouldnt,... the concierges even have the right to give you a ticket if you let your car in a spot owed by someone.
A lot of people think there was a drone used for the B roll but they don't realise how long this guys arms are.
20:25 "Things are different in different places"
Welcome to Switzerland, where the fedaralism is strong and the (electricity) companies small
Good thing you mentioned electricity, because I live somewhat close to Basel, and for all I know, they have some of the biggest labs for pharmaceutical research and chemistry, and boy does it look like business is working for them.
@@haabyalexis yea, very long tradition of chemistry/pharma in basel
4:44 they probably knew you were coming, so they hid the breakers 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
how is ur comment posted 7hrs ago?
@@abirpaul5064Because They Most Likely Pay For The Patreon And Get Access To The Videos Earlier Than The Regular UA-cam Subscribers
@@abirpaul5064 Patreon members
Lol
Wait wtf this vidio was uploaded 11 minutes ago👥🔥
But you commented 7 hours ago ?💀
You should have travelled by train in Switzerland. We have one of the world's best public transport networks.
Also, there are so many untested outlets in those trains too...
Hello Mehdi! I am a Mechatronics student and I started watching you a couple of months into starting my course at uni. I just wanted to express how grateful I am for your videos as they helped me better understand the content and even taught me some additional things that came in handy during our labs. Right now I am on a trip going through switzerland except we skipped the swiss french part and went through the swiss italian part instead. I must recommend you and your family to visit Ticino in the future if you come to Switzerland again. Unfortunately I don't think you will find any swiss failures there either but it is beautiful and has good food!
It's a beautiful country, isn't it?
A few answers to some questions:
Breaker boxes are usually centrally located, somewhere on the ground floor or in the basement (where all the power lines come in).
The outside sockets can usually be activated somewhere in the building, for when you want to run something like a market stall for example (we have markets in the streets sometimes).
You pronounced Baden right the first time. People in Bern float around Bern - the river goes in a wide arc around most of the city, so you can get in at the top of the city and float until you reach the bottom.
The triple socket layout is just because it makes it possible to connect 3 relatively clunky plugs without blocking the others, although very clunky plugs still do.
The sockets being recessed is a safety feature so people don't touch the prongs when plugging something in (in addition to the partially plastic live and neutral prongs (the ground prong is entirely metal)). They're basically the standard now. Flat sockets are usually older ones.
On his north american adapter there is no ground prong and the prongs are entirely metal (no plastic) so you can insert halfway and touch it unless the outlet is recessed.
@@n646n Give natural selection a chance.
@@n646n Well obviously. We swiss wouldn't use those, and that's really the only people we have to protect, right?
I ain’t readin’ all that
Jk I’ve read that
2:26 These edits are shockingly well done, I was not expecting a backrooms-like horror portion in this video
mehdi tries to find breakers in the backrooms (gone wrong)
That shadow silhouette totally got me. Really well and subtlety done
also when he looks in the second room for the first time short after
Mehdi: "Let's find all the problems with Swiss engineering!"
Switzerland: "Don't you know who I am, sir?"
Tbh after working as a electrician since 2016 i have seen a lot of stuff that isnt up to code or straight up dangerous.
There are a lot of factors for it but the biggest one is price gouging. A lot contracts are at a break even or at a loss for the company. That leads to stress, overworking and underpayment for the workers which leads to mistakes or straight up ignorance.
Its like a house of cards, it still stands but if they continue to pile more on top it will collapse on itself.
Worst of all since the pay is underperforming its less desirable to do a 3-4 year apprenticeship and many that try it either quit as an apprentice or change after a few years.
The Unions try to change it but it takes a lot of time and pushback for a change. Its kinda depressing to know that such an essential and dangerous line of work is paid less than it actually should be.
"You'll have to search by my messy neihgbor France"
I work as an electrical designer in industrial environments. The connector at 16:10 is known as a pin/ sleeve connector. They are usually used for 3 phase systems carrying high amperage. Notice the 5 pins (3 live, 1 neutral, and a ground). Not sure about European codes, but NEC codes here in the states prohibit how they are using it (as an extension to feed a facility). Also, it is not uncommon to find two breakers in series with one another. Usually one being for branch level protection, the other being supplementary. A direct short could trip both.
The colours indicate the voltage rating (the highest voltage present). Yellow is 120 V or less, blue is 230 and red is 400. There are some special colours like purple (I think 48 V) and green (non-standard frequency). Using these connectors to supply temporary structures (the one in the video looks like a container) is a perfectly acceptable application for them. 16 and 32 A are the two most common sizes, which are fairly similar in size, larger ones (up to 125 A) are fairly chunky. Single-phase ones are required for motorhomes and caravans all across Europe, so they're the European equivalent of the US RV plug. Don't expect anything like US RV power from a European camp site though - if you're unlucky all you get is 6 A at 230 V per site, just enough to run a few lights and charge batteries.
Imagine taking a vacation to switzerland just to see some dude testing random outlets on the street 😂
15:30 lots of peoples who work in Bern live near the river so when they finnish work they just put their things into waterproff bags and swim home :D
Really? That sounds awesome! Even if it's not super common, it sounds like a great way to cool down in the summer.
no we don't , this is a common misconception, I dont't know where this originated. While some people might take a dip in the river after work and indeed put their things in a waterproof bag while they are swimming, they then get out of the river and go home as everyone else would (bus, tram, bike etc,) There's very few people who live directly at the riverbank.
Everyone should watch the series KAOS to know where all the floating germans went😢
As noted, most power lines in Switzerland run underground.
This was done for aesthetics, environmental protection, and reliability. By the 1970s, urban areas had their power lines buried, followed by rural areas by the 1990s.
same in France and I suspect in a lot of places.
As a swiss man I’m always amazed how apparent and messy electrical wires are in other countries. I have no knowledge in electrical technology but I always point out to my American wife, when traveling in foreign countries, how bizarre it is to see all those electrical wires running along buildings walls and being connected in huge messy ways on the outdoors facades of buildings without any protection😮. In Switzerland you see no wires showing on buildings and I find that absolutely normal. By the way , do you know what that sign means ⛔️? 😂
you'd have a heart attack if you went to Japan
"They look a little more questionable" 23:55 - the glee is contagious!
Swiss electrician here, the grounding of the water drains is the so called Blutz.. thats swiss german slang for Blitz Schutz, lightning protection
Liction?
Very common to see in Germany, also on handrails and benches, especially those on train stations.
Blitz !?!?!? Blitzkrieg !?!?!? 💀
@@AarishRaja-kj8ic That's where it comes from: "Blitz" = "bolt of lightning", "Krieg" = "war" - "war that's over as quick as a bolt of lightning". Didn't quite work out that way...
@@andreasu.3546 lol and thanks for the info
Hey Mehdi! At 16:11 ,the five - pin socket is for a three - phase plug. It is a European standard. The pin configuration is L1, L2, L3, Neutral and Ground with clockwise orientation.
16A 3 phase...
Can you imagine the fun he would have had with that if he'd known...!
The are also versions without the neutral. 4 pins for R,S,T and Earth
230/400 V.
It's 400V 3 phase 16A.
But there's a slightly bigger plug for 3x25A as well.
These plugs are everywhere in industrial environments.
@solwidotnl Dont get me started with 125Amps 3 phase plugs, they are massive.
Its not a real Electroboom video without Medhi breaking into a breaker room 😂
There's a lot of broken drone laws in this video. (You can't fly anything with a camera over houses in switzerland ) Nice to see you visited our beautiful country!
Same in France. Forbidden to fly in cities without proper authorization
That was also my thought. I was wondering whether he uses stock footage from online services until I saw him using the drone controller.
I think in Italy the same. You may need a licence for flying the drone higher.
If the drone it’s under 250 grams you can , you just have to respect privacy (you can’t directly film the inside of the house)
@@PR0_404 The weight alone doesn't determine the legality. As soon as you have a drone with video/picture taking capability, strict regulations are in place.
Also, privacy laws in Switzerland are very extensive. It not just forbidden to film "the inside of the house", but generally all pictures in public places, where the face of someone is recognizable.
13:30 The yellow thing is because it is a combination breaker. When the yellow thing shows it means the breaker popped because of earth leakage. When it is not there, it is overcurrent. It is quite normal to see in many countries in Europe. It shows when you press the test button, because that is what you test. Two breakers with earth protection in series is a bit strange, I agree. But probably because you tripped a larger breaker which goes to multiple room, and they just used a combination breaker on both.
You may not have noticed it but the ITU headquarters is right across the road from the UN. Will be traveling there in Oct for some ITU meetings. This is organization that manages the radio regulations and various recommendations for how to use radio frequencies among other things. Always enjoy visiting Geneva.
IEC is even nearer, the International Electrotechnical Commission. ISO has moved a bit away from the standards triangle. I worked there many years ago.
That power socket outlet at 16:10 is for 5-pole 3-phase + Neutral + Earth probably for 415-435V 32A 3-phase supply
Notice the absolutely cursed way that power brick is plugged in at 23:23
🤣
lmao
I tried that once just to see if it was possible, you actually need to put in a lot of effort to plug something in that way, you will also slightly bend the pins in doing so.
And the fact that this is possible is why I would call this socket design bad. It's seriously quite confusing to someone not familiar with it, so many random holes. I like the way they offer three sockets rotated 120 degrees from each other, but the recessed version is better because it guides you into how you're supposed to plug things in.
it really isn’t „possible“ chances are the socket breaks, pins bend etc.
you need to push very hard - tough many have probably tried.
I tried once and ripped out the socket cover trying to remove it again
22:37 "maybe i shouldnt be in here" OH REALLY? Who would have thought.
15:35 Well that is the ultimate public transportation, you just need a dry bag. In winter is not that convenient but in summer is great (and is free).
😂😂😂 about the only thing that is in Switzerland. I remember being charged for tap water at a restaurant. Not bottled water, tap water. And it was more expensive than the wine
@@marcm. Yeah, this can be shocking for tourists. A good restaurant should inform you when ordering tap water.
The reason they charge for tap water is because restaurants in switzerland make the bulk of their money with drinks. Food is almost a net zero for them. So if you go eat and drink free water they dont make money.
If they had to make money with food it would be so expensive nobody would ever eat out.
@@marcm. If you want free water order "tap water", not "water".
If they ask "still" or "sparkling" water, you answer "tap", not "still".
You _will_ get your tap water for free.
If you give them the opportunity to upcharge you, they _will._ But they are legally obligated to give you tap water, if you ask for it.
(Well, any place that has an alcohol license is obligated. But there are basically 0 restaurants without an alcohol license in Europe.)
@@hundvd_7 some do not get it _by choice_
@@MiriamGraber I mean, Swiss people already barely eat out compared to other countries where people eat out daily.
hi as a swiss person all our power lines are safe and sound underground! on some really, really old and remote places have powerlines up in the open to the house but often times its not even power but an old telephone cable. only powerlines above are are the massive ones from the power plants going to regional transformers and for infrastructure like trains and trams. usually multiple rooms in a house will be on the same breaker but things like the kitchen and the room where the washer/dryer stands.
All isn’t fully true there are a few villages without in ground electricity.
It's really great as a Swiss/German/Austrian to live in a place with 0 chance of earthquakes. So we can put all our stuff in a hole and not worry about it coming back out.
@@nashorn9745 READ i said remote places sometimes still have them above ground.
@@Gametherapist same for The Netherlands
that's not really true, the only country with 0 distribution lines is The Netherlands.
Perfect example of culture. The Swiss: Everything done to perfection. The french? Shoulder shrug.
lets go drink wine we'll fix the wiring later
I'm from that city, Annecy and yeah, it's not that people are cheap or lazy, just that people don't care much LOL
It's more that Sitzerland hides its imperfections away from touristy/expensive places. From the window of my appartment in Geneva, in the inner courtyard of my building, I can see at least 6 loose wires hanging from the rooftop that lead to nothing at all.
@@badaboum2 Geneva is next to France. The closer you get the Frencher it gets.
@@IStMl As someone who has both Swiss and French citizenship, as well as experience living in both countries, Geneva is really nothing like France. But hey that's a classic Swiss cultural trait: if anything seems out of the ordinary, blame foreign influences!
@ElectroBOOM
The yellow indicator shows that the FI/LS (RCD+13A C characteristic breaker) tripped due to a ground fault. If the fault had been caused by overcurrent, the breaker would have still tripped, but the yellow indicator would not have shown.
Regarding the two RCDs in series, the logical reason for this setup is to have one RCD rated at 400mA to protect against stray currents, which could cause a faulted cable to start a fire, and a 30mA RCD to protect against potentially lethal electrical shocks to people. Another reason is to provide backup protection. If the first RCD has an issue and doesn’t trip, the second one will, typically with a time delay. This delay is necessary to avoid both RCDs tripping simultaneously.
the high voltage connection was a 3 phase line... 230V between each phase and neutral and 400V between the phases, pretty much every home has one for the stove/oven
I love how you essentially invite us in to show us your holiday photos each year, except it's way less boring than that makes it sound! Good work :D
As a french person living in annecy and studying in Lyon, I'm happy you liked our city and our food! Also, the cables everywhere is something i've never notice but i think that now that you've pointed it out, i won't unsee it. Anyways, i hope you'll come back here for another great video!
Just and advice for people visiting switzerland. Don't rent a car, take the train. You can go to almost every town by public transports. Maybe rent a car if you want to go to lost places in the mountains.
This. Switzerland has one of the best rail networks in the world.
@@versedbridge4007 😂😂SBB awards itself the title of best public transport in the world...... It's a little bit better in the German part, but in Romandie, we have every day some delays... and cancellations....
Bern -> Zürich is 53chf per person .... rent a car cost 120chf for 1 days....
Yeah always bothers me when I see videos of people visiting here and renting a car. I would say taking the train is also a part of experiencing the country!
For a group of people, the car is cheaper !
The car is still the quicker option, unless you only go between direct connections with interregios.
Mehdi Sir
The Red Socket You Saw Is a 3 Phase AC Industrial German Socket
Plus They Are Waterproof Sockets
Next time in Switzerland try to check out Technorama museum, a lot of interesting electrical stuff there
22:24 Mehdi casually violating Geneva convention (of not entering restricted rooms in Geneva)
What we see in 16:39 is for conducting lightnings. It reaches up to the roof to conduct lightnings safely to ground
That big red connector is an CEE connector, it has 400 Volts running through it, but they can have different Amp ratings and they you have a 4 and 5 pin version and it has 3 phases
As a swiss citizen and electronic engeneer i am proud of our infrastructure as a product of our direct democracy.
But not of the dark banking system.
@@blancosanmartin what about the price of rice in china?
@@blancosanmartinmoney laundring. Deleware is the place to go for that.
@@chreg89 Not the only one.
I lived in Switzerland for 2 years and am back home in the USA now and I wish our government was like yours. I was really impressed with how the government is run there, people’s votes in Switzerland actually matter but here in the US our votes literally do nothing (representative democracy). Loved Switzerland and hope to get a 2nd home there, I actually think Switzerland is better than the U.S. quality of live is definitely better there than here.
Mehdi: Bring peace to the world while im here!
also Mehdi: *Proceeds to pop the UN's breakers*
Was half expecting Mehdi to go on a tour of the Large Hadron Collider, and trip a breaker there.
or the power to go down suddenly while the UN is in session
23:04 that flip dot matrix quality is sick
16:10 that's a standard 3-phase connector
he uploaded this 51 secs ago 😂 how u watched until 16:10 already?
@@yeayea-tz2kq He is a channel member. They have advanced access to the video.
Yep. That's 380V. It has 5 pins: 3 lives (1 for each phase), neutral and ground.
It looks like caravan and rvs connectors
It is IEC 60309 three phase connector (3P+N+PE).
NO WAY HE CAME XD
16:12 the way you grabbed that cable, I thought for a moment you were just going to yank the thing out 😬
Imagine it was powering some guys life support and that's why it's red
Hello, I'm from Switzerland and I can explain the ground wire to you! it's a lightning rod! ;) to make energetic water... 😂 Thank you for coming to check the Swiss electrical system. Only good to you
creepy vibes in the hallway at 2:27 there looks like there is someone at the end of the hallway and 2:35, when he walks past the door there looks like a human silhouette in the middle of the room and its gone when he looks back into the room
Yeah, I noticed that too! Really well done!
Also when leaving the hallway he left turns red
Its his shadow twice. Watch at 0.25
The backrooms 😮
between 2:30 and 2:31 you can see a shadow with a red dot
There are 2 RCD's in series because of something called Selectivity. Based on the severeness of the ground fault it tripps the RCD's farther away from the cause. The other RCD that tripped outside of your room must be a RCD with a max fault current of 300mA used for fire protection. Every line section between fuse panels has to be protected against overload and short circuit. Every pluggable connection in switzerland must be RCD protected. Most modern installations use a RCD for every Room or Section of the building so finding faults is made easier.
It`s impressive that he got all of the permits to fly that drone in all of those locations! 👏
Suspicious 🤔
Yeah I know the French law on drone and if it’s over 250g it’s start getting messy.
Yeah if the drone is under 250gr you can almost fly anywhere in Europe (Switzerland has the same rules as European Union).
@@fwijffels except cities in France. ;)
@@gp2mv3that's pretty common under commun1sm.
Lovely footage of "my" country, thank you very much Sir.
11:17 the car in front of you is a military g wagon
@25:36 LOL! He'll be back France...
16:00 This is a high power outlet for construction work
16:40 This is the grounding wire for a lightning rod, to protect the buildings from lightning strikes
Or it can also be used for a festival to distribute power where is needed
generally speaking its high power outlets, there is the blue ones and red ones, idk about english but in german its called industriesteckdose (industrial outlet)
Blue CEE Plugs are single phase 230V, 16 or 32 Amps. Red CEE Plugs are three phase 16, 32, 63 & 125 Amps. In Switzerland we also have T15 & T25: these are three phase 10A/16A sockets/plugs, where the sockets are also backwards compatible (for example with the T23 single phase 16A plug, T13 single phase 10A plug, Euro plug etc…
At 16:00:
Looks like the 32A (or 63A) version of CEE-outlet - the amps are per phase/line. At a "normal" power outlet the max-current is 10A to 16A, depending on national regulations and power outlet used, etc.
Voltage in Europe is nominal 230V (±10%) from between a phase-line and neutral-line and 400V between two phases. Two phases have shift of 120°, each.
Neutral is grounded at the transformer and additionally you have safety-ground, grounded at your building.
@@moatl6945no, wether neutral is grounded at the transformer center, wether the ground/earth is combined with the neutral until the house is fully dependent on the net design: TNC systems have a grounded neutral: Terre Neutre Combiné. TNCS (Terre Neutre Combine séparée) have a grounded neutral until it enters the house, where the grounded neutral is split to neutral and ground. (Necessary for RCD‘s / RCBO‘s to work…).
Most new electricity networks are TNS (Terre Neutre Séparée) though: Earth and Neutral are separated at the transformer already…)This, in combination with the earth being grounded at every house while the neutral not grounded at the houses, results in tiny voltage imbalances between the two. This is why when you bridge neutral and ground, you will probably trip the RCBO/RCD
15:44 in the summer lots of people travel home from work in the river, its like a tradition, the thing they hold on to is like a waterproof backpack that holds their clothes and other things inside
3:40 Boom found someone's drug drop off🤣
Hahahahah my thoughts exactly
16:45 That is coming from a lightning rod.
Pay Attention while opening firehose Compartments. Sometimes they trigger the Firealarm and at least in Germany the smallest Firetrian will cost you 800€.
23:05 this flip board is really cool. Adding to my “need to make” list. Lots to figure out though. Gonna be some learning involved.
21:00 that is an outdated standard of electrical socket.
A little history:
The socket of the old standard (1950s or so) were flush like the ones presented, and the prongs were metal all the way to the plug body, which presented a very significant safety issue as you could easily have a half-way in plug and inadvertently touch the exposed live metal pins.
To rectify this issue, a new standard was introduced which ensured safety two-folds:
1) The new socket is recessed, meaning that the connector fully covers the hole before the metal prongs become live.
2) The new plugs have half-way insulated pins, meaning that once the plug is inserted enough to establish an electrical connection, the metal no longer is exposed.
You may be wondering, why the effort for this pointless redundancy? Simple: this is so that new plugs are safe with old sockets, and old plugs are safe with new sockets.
It would be impossible to mandate the change of all existing sockets and plugs, so the swiss regulating body just prohibited the sale and installation of the old standard. Since the new standard guarantees "backwards-compatible safety", the issue resolves fairly quickly as houses are renovated and appliances replaced. Since appliances are replaced more often than sockets, safety improves in the timespan of years instead of decades.
However, here you were using an old plug with an old socket, so it was unsafe.
Cheap adapters are notoriously bad at coping with the newer recessed standard, and are equally bad at complying with the plastic cover requirement. The one you used would be banned from being sold in Switzerland. This is the one complaint you could have had during this trip: the hotel was using an outdated plug-socket standard.
Addendum: this is not the complete picture, as I haven't mentioned an in-between standard which mandated recessed sockets, but not partially insulated pins.
This socket type was only mandated in kitchens/bathrooms/workplaces, where wetted hands could be expected, and furthermore did not prevent electrical shocks when plugging into old standard sockets. The new standard mandates recessed plugs everywhere, and partially insulated connectors, ensuring safety in all possible plug-socket combinations where at least one is new.
You can see this standard in the hotel-provided adapter seen slightly before the given timestamp: it is compatible with recessed sockets, but does not have any insulation.
Look up the plugsocketmuseum for pictures and details.
when was the new standard mandated?
One positive thing you can say about Switzerland: Their flag is a big plus!
Don’t mention Austria 🇦🇹 now … 🤣🤣
Lel
@@CarstenMK Americans will get confused when they don't see any cangaroos there.
Booooo
Old and predictable.
Do better!
25:48 the disappointment is REAL.
The ice cream on his left looks suspiciously like shrek
I just want to say that I used to watch your videos in college and I'm so glad to see that you're still creating content. What an OG!
Swiss sockets have a lot of story. When you see single sockets for instance in a basement, the ground pin is at the lowest position - so that if the basement floods the water hits ground first.
Also the ground pin defines the location of neutral and life, since the plug cant be reverse.
There is a combination of the 3 pin, where they added two more flat pins, allowing 3 phase on a very compact socket. Where you can plug a regular plug, but also a 3 phase plug. Very useful under kitchen counters for dish washers etc..
Mehdi watch out if you have a drone over 250g you need to have a license and you are not allowed to film people if they don’t want to, you can get arrested.
Swiss people have alot of regulations and laws.
+ third party insurance covering at least 1 mio CHFs and always fly at sight
@@Sakatlandwell i have the license and if you film from far away or don’t try to fly it and film really obvious Peoples faces they won’t say anything. But we also habe Karen’s and i had some trouble with these people.
I was wondering about that, He seem to fly in places I would expect to be forbidden to fly.
Lots of places he was at, it's illegal to fly drones. Can't do it in the old town of Bern or in Gruyères (because of local airfields) nor at Grindelwald First or Montreux (because of wildlife protection)
It's only illegal if you get caught (I have to say I'm joking with the Swiss people will be mad at me)
2:30 all this X-files and no jumpscare. You must be in vacation mood
there was one a few seconds before...
I watched this brilliant video in a hotel room in Zurich at 04:00 because I couldn't sleep. So funny to see you in Europe and very nice drone videos! Love your work.