[email protected] wrote: > > An aspect that I just heard of yesterday, from one of our Product Safety > engineers, is that Australia, Argentina, and the People's > Republic of China have > what looks like the identical plug. The Australian plug is used > over much of > the South Pacific. The prongs for the Chinese plug are 1mm > longer than the > prongs in the Australian plug. The prongs in the Argentina plug > are 1mm longer > that the prongs in the Australian plug, AND hot and neutral are swapped!
< nod > One of the reasons why I was asking my question. If an 'international' version of a power supply has trouble with a reversed input, then there'd definitely be a problem in Germany. - Doug McKean ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall,"
