[ltp] Electric shock from t40 in France

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 08 Jun 2004 18:10:26 -0400


Dimitris Kogias wrote:
> Most likely it's a static discharge.  But it's also worth a try to 
> reverse the prongs of your AC adapter.  That's in case the circuitry 
> somehow assumes that one of them will be the ground and, through the 
> flat-to-continental-europe adapter you must be using, it ends up being 
> connected to the live AC terminal.
> 
> D.

If it was static discharge, it would be a single, almost instantaneous 
spark.