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Searching for Swiss Failures

🕑 Added 2024-08-30 07:58:56 +0000 UTC

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Matthias “Thias” Wiesmann

I travel with a wife and kids in Switzerland. Intercity trains have a wagon with a playground and a slide, not to mention restrooms with a changing table…

Ben

I completely love European trains but as someone who's travelled with a wife and kids, the car option has its appeal...

Matthias “Thias” Wiesmann

In Switzerland, the recessed plugs used to be only required for wet rooms, but the legislation was changed in 2016 to require recessed plugs everywhere. In old houses, you can still find non recessed, non grounded plugs. The three plug in triangle configuration is just a space saver, as you. can put three plugs inside a standard plug plate/box (the dimensions are pretty standard accros Europe). There are three phase plugs, which have 5 pins, but you would not find those in a hotel room, they are used for ovens, washing machines, this kind of stuff. Swiss plugs exist in two varieties, the round peg ones you see everywhere, which are rated at 10 amps, and a variant with square pegs rated at 16 amps. Cascading breakers are the norm, here is the fuse panel of our house. Each area has its own 13A breaker, and those are grouped on 25A breakers. https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/share/Breakers.jpeg The plug you found outside is a IEC 60309 plug used in construction sites. This is a EU wide standard, which has a single phase (blue) and three phase (red) variants. Unrelated: why the hell did you go around Switzerland by car?

Adrian Neacsu

I love the new editing style. The setup Linus made for you is paying off😁😊😁

Pim van Pelt

thanks for visiting my city, Mehdi! Also, thanks for leaving it in one piece. The sky had more ground faults than you did!!1

Ben

(also I want to go back and shoot everything with my drone mounted on a pole like it's a selfie stick, just to see if they try to arrest me)

Ben

(all that said, I'm sure you can get permission for commercial purposes if you plan ahead, don't mean to suggest Medhi is a scofflaw or anything!)

Ben

Most of Europe has extremely restrictive drone rules. We were there last year and the only place I ended up using my drone was inside our AirBnB in Rome... I saw a guy pull a drone out of his backpack at the Doge's Palace/piazza in Venice, and there were THREE sets of cops converging on him at a run while his wife was yelling at him! I had a brief look at Switzerland's rules and you can fly some places if you register, but I don't know anywhere you're allowed to fly over people who aren't involved in your shoot or over roads. I registered in the UK and discovered you can't fly near cities, beaches, tourist attractions, or basically anywhere worth shooting on video...

Steve Jones

... In the next episode of "Let's see if Electroboom can get his family on the no fly list"..... We add 2 more countries to the list who think he's a nuisance... But WE love it!! :-)

Steve Jones

This is exactly what I was wondering.. Some amazing shots, and yet I'd think if there were not rules against this, there would be hundreds of tourist drones flying around all the time in places like that..

Ron Jones

Did you have to get special permission to fly the drone for those great flyby shots?

Thomas Eriksen

Did you edit out when you measured voltage and frequency of the tram wire?

Max Heim

New electroboom video!!!!

Phil Karn

And yes, France is a lot cheaper than Switzerland. In fact, most places are. The hotel clerks in Geneva didn't live there.

Phil Karn

What fun. In 2019 my wife and I also worked our way across Switzerland from Zurich to Geneva, including Montreaux and Gruyere. Didn't stick probes into the wall sockets in every room, though. I was smarter than that.