Subj : Bluetooth Keyboard To : Mike Powell From : Barry Martin Date : Sat Aug 10 2024 07:32:00 Hi Mike! > But everything electrical is evidently for the Australian grid, which > doesn't match the U.S. grid. MP> Which is interesting as I thought Aldi was a European country, MP> possibly German. Maybe I am mistaken. ;) Aldi is a company, thought it might be bigger than Lichenstein or Monaco! Aldi is German-based, originally by the Aldi family. As for electrical systems, the same yet different. My Mother and I went to Vienna several times to visit my Aunt prior to the COVID pandemic and I had to figure out how to plug in some U.S. products. U.S. is a flat prong, EU (Europenan Union) generally uses a pin -- and IIRC it is insulated whereas the prong is not: go to pull a stubborn plug out and wrap the fingers around too far: bzzzt! The use of double the U.S. voltage is somewhat more efficient: doubling the voltage will halve the current. I think the U.S. use of 60 Hz (Hertz, originally cps for 'cycles per second') was based on 60 seconds in a minute; the European use of 50 Hz was to save the mechanical wear on the generators: 10 less revolutions per minute. Not sure if the latter is accurate but sort of makes sense, One 'silly' thing I noted over there is the wall outlets generally have a single outlet: accepts only one device. U.S. outlets are generally 'duplex': two outlets in one. I'm not sure if they place the outlets closer together or just use a lot more power strips: my Aunt's apartment was rewired several decades ago so using the old layout. (Old U.S. houses also have fewer outlets than one built recently.) My hotel (my Mother stayed with my Aunt) was updated maybe ten years prior to my stays so laid out to be for hotel. The desks in my rooms had built-in power strips. (S.N.: in my stays I had different rooms and each was different, so not using a bulk-puchased furniture.) ¯ ® ¯ BarryMartin3@MyMetronet.NET ® ¯ ® .... He's like a lighthouse in Nebraska: brilliant but useless. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .