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   From: mapson.scarts@btinternet.INVALID   
      
   "Roderick Stewart"    
   wrote in message   
   news:VA.00000beb.003dd401@escapetime.removethisbit.myzen.co.uk...   
   : In article   
   , Terry   
   Casey   
   : wrote:   
   : > > > On the other hand, why have laptop manufacturers started   
   supplying their   
   : > > > fully isolated PSUs with 3-pin connectors?   
   : > >   
   : > > Because if they supplied them with anything else in the UK,   
   you'd need to   
   : > > buy an adaptor as well.   
   : > >   
   : >   
   : > I'm not sure what you mean by that. Are you implying that it   
   is no   
   : > longer legal in the UK to supply equipment with twin flex   
   (and matching   
   : > 2-pole connector)?   
   :   
   : I wasn't implying anything at all about what's legal, because I   
   don't know, but   
   : I do know that if you want to plug an electrical appliance into   
   a wall socket   
   : in the UK, it needs to have a 3 pin UK plug on it. Therefore if   
   they put any   
   : other kind of plug on it, you'd have to use an adaptor.   
   :   
      
   Except Terry was talking about the *female* plug on the end of   
   the power lead that is inserted into the PSU... The plug that is   
   inserted into the wall socket, AIUI, those have and will always   
   be local to the official area of sale - otherwise, in your own   
   words, an adapter would be required. Duh! :~)   
   --   
   Regards, Jerry.   
      
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