When buying electronics, the range of products available is vastly superior in the US compared to any European country. Fortunately, power adapters are now almost all “universal”; that is, they accept 110V-230V. So the only problem is the physical interface.
I’ve been using these teensy adapters for a while, but the problem is…
.. that they’re extremely rickety. They neither have a solid grip on the Euro side, and the US side isn’t satisfactory, either, so it just feels… bad.
So I went looking for other variations, and I found these somewhere in Europe. They are totes unrickety, but they’re huge. For something that does nothing but accept one plug and plug into another plug (there’s no voltage adaptering), is silly. So the other day I wondered… surely something smaller has to exist? I mean, something that’s just flush with the Euro “Schuko” plug? I mean, it should fit in there? Why doesn’t it exist?
Behold! It does exist!
It’s not totally flush, which is weird, because the US plug is shallower than the Euro er hole, but still, not. But it’s almost there! And the grip on both ends is very satisfactory. Nothing rickety about these.
They’re called “OREI American USA To European Schuko Germany Plug Adapters CE Certified Heavy Duty” *phew* and they’re about $1 each.
And they’ve been working for several hours now, so they must be perfect.
You have to wonder what the people who made that huge adapter were thinking… “This will do”? No, it won’t.
I think you’ll find that the adapter (the best one) is deeper than you think is required because it looks like it also accepts UK plugs which are huge!
And UK plugs are huge because they are simultaneously satisfying a number of requirements which, all together, mandate enormity. It’s a price worth paying for the safest plug design in the world, I’d say (they barely ever warm up, they never spark, they most certainly never catch fire and there is so little danger of electrocution that you can literally let two-year-olds play with live sockets without worrying).
I think your scale is a bit off.
Perhaps if I just… push… harder!