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  • Rated by Byno on Sep 23, 7:44pm

    THANK YOU. This has been bothering me for about 6 years (when I started to really learn about electricity). If only I'd seen this about 4 years ago when it was written...

  • Rated by Fhqwhgads on May 07 2009, 8:20am

    I was always told that the wide prong and the third prong did the same thing, and were invented at the same time and thus one never became ubiquitous (like DVD+R and DVD-R). Thanks to this article, I now know the truth.

  • Rated by progman32 on Mar 30 2009, 11:50pm

    I deal with low-power DC digital circuits all the time, but I didn't even know about this! Read it!

  • Rated by GeneralCokehead on Mar 17 2009, 8:27am

    Very well done. I never really understood why the ground prong had to be there. I've just always sort of noticed that the bigger the thing is, the higher volts/amps it uses, the higher likelihood that it has the ground prong. I was wrong all along of course, but eh.

  • Rated by flatterkatz on Aug 25 2008, 12:56am

    good read

  • Rated by harborcaptain on May 26 2008, 11:12pm

    I really enjoyed this article that describes why our electrical grid is structured the way it is in laymans terms. Its very well written quite humorous. Excellent.

  • Rated by Sirtalksalot on Mar 21 2008, 1:51pm

    Fascinating, answer to a question I never though to ask.