From: Peter Hucker 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.italian soc.culture.europe alt.politics.italy soc.culture.spain soc.culture.german uk.misc uk.finance
Subject: Re: Electrical plugs in the EU
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:23:50 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 03:49:45 GMT, David Bloom  wrote:

> Peter Hucker wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:00:27 GMT, David Bloom  wrote:
>>
>> > 3573 bytes free wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 01:57:08 +0000, arachedeux wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > "David Bloom"  wrote in message
>> >> > news:40452803.5C852B1A@Bloom.com.zz...
>> >> >> When traveling through the EU how many electrical plugs is one
>> >> >> likely to run into, and is the electric current stable in the EU.
>> >> >> So that a laptop computer adapter wont go bonkers, and clocks
>> >> >> keep various times.
>> >> >
>> >> > In my experience the wiring in DE, NE, BE, LUX, & SUI is the best in Europe,
>> >> > you'll find locals using their laptops while they're in the bath becuase of
>> >> > the inbuilt earthing system.
>> >>
>> >> The risk may be low because the transformer is external to the laptop.
>> >> Even if my house has differential switches (which are obligatory in Italy
>> >> and much better than some huge fuses I've seen in german residential
>> >> blocks) there is always the chance it breaks up, so i wouldn't risk taking
>> >> electrical equipment to the bathroom. Use a magazine. And test your
>> >> differential switches once a year.
>> >
>> > Well if you are a teenager and only testing your differential switches
>> > once a year by using a magazine, there is probably something wrong
>> > with you. :-)
>>
>> Depends on the guage of the bullets in the magazine of course.
>
> Well if you are only testing your differential switches once a year,
> you are probably only shooting blanks. :-)

Well you could have warned me it wasn't wse to insert my genitalia into a light 
socket.


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