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- From: amell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Andrew P.Mell)
- Subject: Re: Supra/Computability modem export ban - more info!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.013543.13592@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug9.080645.2049@actrix.gen.nz> <BsvKHD.8AE@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 01:35:43 GMT
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- In article <BsvKHD.8AE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
-
- >This brings up a question. I've been told that a lot of electrical
- >items in England come without mains plugs because they're different
- >in many places. So how do they use these stupid external wall-plug
- >type power supplies?
-
- Us English dont use different plugs in different places, we have one type
- of plug - 3 pins in a triangular configuration - the actual pins are
- rectangular. The only reason why mains appliances dont come with fitted
- plus is because there is no legal requirement for them to do so unlike
- many other countries. henceforth export manufacturers just leave the plug
- off to save costs and leave it to the consumer to fit it.
-
- This is to change soon when a new law is brought in making it illegal to
- sell an electrical appliance without a fitted mains plug - because some
- people wire them up wrongly blowing themselves up in the process.
-
- Andy
-