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Old 05-08-2011, 09:35 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Dannii View Post
I agree with you for the most part Yep...
I still don't get how any of this amounts to anything other than throwing up a bunch of technical-sounding sand.

Anything with a "third prong" has it for either your safety, or for the safety of the machine, or both. If there is no benefit, it doesn't have one. No sane manufacturer or electrical engineer includes one just for the hell of it.

I'm trying to be polite, but as a manufacturer and design engineer with products both CE and UL-listed, the notion that the ground/earth pin/prong is unimportant is plain wrong. It's cheaper and easier to omit it if there is no reason for it.

In some cases it's there more to protect the equipment than the user, but it's never included for no reason.
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