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[Will Stephenson]

On Thursday 17 July 2003 17:53, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> On Thursday 17 July 2003 18:30, Stephan Binner wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 July 2003 22:36, Will Stephenson wrote:
> > > Reading the thread on plugs, do I understand correctly that a German
> > > 'Schukostecker' is compatible with Czech sockets?
> >
> > No. The E/Czech socket has a pin preventing that
> > (http://kropla.com/!e.htm). You may have success with an ungrounded
> > German/Europe plug of type C.
>
> Well, most Schuko's here in Austria have the additional (grounded) hole for
> the pin, so they are supposed to work.
> It seems that while we have type F receptacles, we mostly have type C + F
> plugs (with both the grounded hole for the pin of type C as well as the
> grounded contacts at the outside like in type F).
>
> I checked all the Schuko plugs I could find, and all of them had the hole
> for the pin, so I guess most German/Austrian Schukos will also work in N7Y.

I found my UK->Schuko adaptor and it has a hole in the right place too.

Will

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