Re:Museum of Plugs and Sockets
by ClumsyPilot on Thursday November 25, 2021 @06:52AM
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Mobile phone adapters and other low power devices don't use the Earth even in Uk, they have a plastic prong there and you just get extra weight and bulk.
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This goes for many devices that have an isolation transformer or equivalent in their primary circuitry. Beware of cheap knockoffs though, they will look the same but will lack that isolation and possibly the separation required to make such a device safely and they won't have ground. So if anything fails there the return path to earth will be you. Better hope you have a ground fault protector in place when that happens.