Re: [76attendees] Obtaining laptop power cords in Hiroshima

["Kevin P. Fleming" <[e-mail]>]

Ole Jacobsen wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Thomson, Martin wrote:
> 
>> I found that a pair of pliers can also be quite effective, but that 
>> was on a power adapter, not the original equipment.
> 
> Snapping off the third prong (ground) would work just find on most
> US-originated power cords. The thing you have to "worry" about is
> the width of the remaining two blades: they should be the SAME size,
> see: http://www.yikes.com/~ole/store/plug-socket.jpg
> 
> Most Japanese outlets look similar to the one you see in that picture,
> that is, the plug is not keyed by having one wider blade.
> 
> I just checked my Apple MacBook power cord, and the blades are the 
> same size so chances are your adapter uses a similar arrangement.

It does indeed, I just checked that this morning, and I also remembered
that I had snapped off the grounding prong on my wife's laptop power
adapter cord so it would fit into a European adapter on our last trip...
since the laptop power supply has no external metal components, I fail
to understand why they even used a three-prong plug in the first place
(there is nothing to connect the earth ground to).

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