Hello,
Am 20.07.2017 um 21:54 schrieb Peter Southwood:
Which devices with an induction motor will run off a
laptop power cable?
while there is no such a thing as a “laptop cable”, the original
question was about general “power cables”.
The cable between the wall-socket and you laptop-transformer is usually
one of these 3:
* A rubber connector (C14)
* Clover-leaf or Mickey Mouse (C5)
* Not polarized (C7)
C14 and C7 are also used in many other devices beside IT: C7 for example
with radios. And here lies the danger: That somebody would use the
cables you provided for laptops (where they are mostly fine) to connect
devices that are not ready for under-voltage.
If you use a C14 to power a fan-cooled heater, the possibility that it
will catch fire (because the dumb heating works fine, but the more
complex fan is not) is quite high.
I do not say that something bad will happen (because modern devices
often use far range transformers), but there is the possibility; as you
could read in this thread some people were …naive… enough to plug-in
American devices into European socket-outlets.
Sincerely,
DaB.
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