Hallo, Paul Winkler hat gesagt: // Paul Winkler wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 12:33:25PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > One can also try to cut the earth of the laptop's powers supply if > > one has a death wish... ;) I mean, don't do that. > > I have the same buzz problem on my laptop... > i wouldn't physically cut the prong, but I have used one of those > little 2-prong to 3-prong adapters - common in the US, you can find them > in any hardware store here, i assume there's an equivalent elsewhere. > You probably know the type - about 1 inch square, it's got a standard US > 3-prong outlet on one side and a 2-prong plug on the other, > with a little tab that you're meant to screw into the center screw of > the wall outlet. > If you ensure that the tab doesn't contact anything grounded, > voila, ground is broken. > > is this a safety hazard? I'm not really sure. > Be careful. Actually I'm also not sure, if it must be a safety hazard. I read about this solution and I also asked Acer, if they could provide a 2-prong plugged cable for their laptops. They wrote me, that in Germany they are not allowed to supply such a cable for their laptops, but I could try to find one somewhere else... I guess, that the case of a laptop is well isolated from its innards, and also a lot of cases are plastic, so it seems. But if it's not isolated, the user would be the ground connection chosen, and that'll hurt. ;) Then the epanorama docs say "Do not do this", because it's "potentially very dangerous": http://www.epanorama.net/documents/groundloop/problem_solving.html They call the plug-solution a "cheater plug": http://www.epanorama.net/documents/groundloop/cheater.gif ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
