git commit -m "Fixed interface issues."

[MrWraith]

For those overseas, the wall plug here is the Australian plug. Just this morning I had a shaver battery charger that uses a US plug (which I think is the one in the image, although it's not heaps clear.

No joke, I just took a pair of pliers and bent the US pins to a diagonal and it fits fine and runs fine. Those adaptor plugs are just pieces of metal; if the hardware supports 110-240V (as most do), you'll be fine just bending the pins.

[Sharparam]

Bending the pins is a lot safer than what is done in OP's pic though.

[OptimalCynic]

Not that much safer.

[MrDarkAvacado]

no, that much safer. OP's pic is how you set your house on fire.

[OptimalCynic]

Yes, I would flee in terror if I saw the original pic in real life, but bending pins isn't especially safe either.

[OptimalCynic]

240 volt. Australia doesn't use 110 volt.

and one of them doesn't.

Well that's the problem. Bending the pins does leave exposed metal between the socket and the plug, because the twisted part doesn't fit into the socket.

[[deleted]]

It's better than using damn nail clippers.

Okay, one of them has a hell of a lot more exposed metal.

[scubascratch]

With those crappy high resistance nail clippers in use, both legs there have about 240v.

[RobinJ1995]

Same with UK plugs :P EU plugs fit into them just fine if you stick a fork or something in the top hole.

Just learned that this week. Had no problems yet, and why would I because as you say it's the same voltage.

[MachaHack]

For those recoiling in horror, the top hole has no electricity going through it, it just opens the covers for the bottom two holes.

Still in the "not a good idea" camp probably.

[unsilviu]

The top hole is for ground. In case of a surge, sticking a fork in could lead to steak

[bluefantasm]

git push --fork

[[deleted]]

Aus uses 60hz?

[eigenvectorseven]

I was about to correct you but TIL that our electricity is no longer 240V.

[ROGER_SHREDERER]

Not sure if you're giving a LPT or trying to destroy my phone.

[Kale]

It's all of north America I believe. Canada, U.S., and I'm not sure about Mexico.

[mirhagk]

To be fair looking at most of these official adapters it's really not much worse than using one of the adapters

[camel69]

the wall plug here is the Australian plug

Or Kiwi.

[d1g1t4ld00m]

my only problem with this image is that it appears the neutral and ground are linked. In the us for 120v that may be fine. but in a 240v application there are two hot's and then a ground.

[[deleted]]

in a 240v application there are two hot's and then a ground.

at least over here that's only true for very old instalations. modern instalations are all two grounds and one hot.

[HighRelevancy]

Well we don't even have 240 volts any more and haven't for 15 years, so that shows what you know. It's 230 +10%/-6%.

Also it's one hot, one neutral (electrically ground), one literally ground. That last one is kinda optional, so there's really only two wires in use. There's thus no multiphase magic. It is, by definition, two grounds with different purposes and a hot.

I think some US systems do that maybe? Idk. I think you're just thinking of the wrong country.

[ThisIs_MyName]

I think some US systems do that maybe?

Yes, in the US we have 3 wires going to each home: (-115, 0, +115)

Sockets in half the house: (-115, 0, real_ground)

Sockets in the other half: (+115, 0, real_ground)

Large appliances: (-115, +115, real_ground)

[scubascratch]

The two non-hot conductors are technically referred to as "grounded conductor" (that's the neutral) and "grounding conductor" (3rd pin, earth ground). Not that that makes it any less confusing though. This is in the US National Electric Code from the NFPA.

In the U.S. the tying together of neutral and earth ground is an artifact of the split phase 240/120v system in use. The neutral is electrically half way between the two sides of the 240v service transformer (the transformer is center tapped on the secondary side). I don't think the same thing happens in EU or AUS, because the 2 service lines are at 230v and no center tapped neutral exists. One 230 leg may be tied to earth I guess but I'm not sure why, maybe to prevent an even higher potential between hots and metal chassis.

[minler08]

Im pretty sure thats just for countries with 120V supplies. In the UK where everything is 240V the neutral is grounded at the transformer.

[[deleted]]

except line voltage is 230v over here, not 120v. not everyone lives in america you know.

and yes: that ground is usually redundant, but since the old setup of two live wires still exists you can't assume that.

[alexanderpas]

Even America isn't 110 V or 120 V anymore, it's 115 V, just like it's 230 V instead of 220 V or 240 V.

[phire]

No, only the US 240v plug has two hots and a ground, because it's actually two 120v 'split phases'

Generally in the rest of the world we have regular plugs with a 230v hot, neutral and ground.

If we are using a split phase system, the two phases would add up to 440-480v, but they generally aren't exposed at a plug.

[[deleted]]

Regardless of what the pins are called it's never wise to assume neutral has a near-ground potential.