oh my god most American homes could use 240V outlets everywhere if they wanted to?https://twitter.com/TechConnectify/status/1275057128584228864 …
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And Japan is largely the same because they just copied the Americans here. Except Japan is worse because grounded outlets weren't even a common thing until very recently. At most you got a ground screw terminal in a few select outlets for appliances.
At my old apartment (1980) after lack of ground killed a board I was working on, I ended up running a ground from the kitchen microwave outlet to my workbench. Thankfully I moved to a 2007 construction apartment and there are some grounded outlets here. Not all. Some.
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On the plus side, it's so much easier not to have ground loop issues here! Ground cheater power strips are the norm! Everything comes with a ground spade terminal instead of a 3-pin plug, which of course you connect nowhere!pic.twitter.com/TLP7F2HE9t
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I saw that on a MacBook cord while I was there and was like "wild. there's no way anyone is actually grounding their MacBooks this way when they sit down in Starbucks, this is utterly stupid"
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