Re:World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan...
by analog31 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @12:14AM
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With the grounding pin absent, even a small amount of leakage can result in the enclosure of the tool being anywhere between mains and ground potential. I'm neither an electrician nor an engineer, but I suspect that the newer "double insulated" standard is a worthwhile improvement.
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Re:World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan...
by bigiain on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @01:00AM
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Either (or both of) roper grounding or a residual current detector would have made that day of mine a lot less exciting. I'm still happy using metal-cased mains powered devices, but I'm somewhat more careful about checking those two things before I hang on to them tightly these days...