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Default Mains sockets with USB ports

Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 23:09:22 +0000, Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp wrote:

I dont think an smps is deliberately referenced to the mains. Without a
ground reference, most SMPS provide a slight tingle, capacitive pickup I
presume.


boggle


It's remarkable how small a current people (and cows) can feel. And
there is no way to make it zero. Otherwise we wouldn't have wireless.

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Roger Hayter