Thanks, That is useful information. I have only seen one type here , which may be the clover-leaf (it has three holes, two slightly smaller than the third, which is offset, and the surrounding insulator does look like a Mickey Mouse front view head outline). Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimania-l [mailto:wikimania-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of DaB. Sent: Friday, 21 July 2017 1:43 AM To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Socket type in the Sheraton Hotel Hello, Am 20.07.2017 um 21:54 schrieb Peter Southwood: > Which devices with an induction motor will run off a laptop power cable? while there is no such a thing as a “laptop cable”, the original question was about general “power cables”. The cable between the wall-socket and you laptop-transformer is usually one of these 3: * A rubber connector (C14) * Clover-leaf or Mickey Mouse (C5) * Not polarized (C7) C14 and C7 are also used in many other devices beside IT: C7 for example with radios. And here lies the danger: That somebody would use the cables you provided for laptops (where they are mostly fine) to connect devices that are not ready for under-voltage. If you use a C14 to power a fan-cooled heater, the possibility that it will catch fire (because the dumb heating works fine, but the more complex fan is not) is quite high. I do not say that something bad will happen (because modern devices often use far range transformers), but there is the possibility; as you could read in this thread some people were …naive… enough to plug-in American devices into European socket-outlets. Sincerely, DaB. -- Benutzerseite: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] PGP: 0x7CD1E35FD2A3A158 (pka funktioniert) _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
