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Default MICKY ASKS: "Why 3-prong plugs?"

Colonel Edmund J. Burke wrote:
On 3/7/2017 1:29 PM, micky wrote:
Why do laptop power supplies, the ones with black rectangular things in
the middle of the cord, have 3-prong plugs when everything you can touch
is plastic or "rubber"?


Micky, I'm gonna field this one out to the expurts in Cyberland.
Take it away, Cyberland dudes...........


A user might plug in an accessory such as a printer, headphone,
flash drive, etc which DOES have exposed metal parts, and the
manufacturer wants to have done everything he can to make it
safe so he won't be sued......