Re: [iPAQ] french electricity?

On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 20:18, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 23:19, jonathan chetwynd wrote:
> > not certain about this, but during a brief visit to France this week it prooved impossible to charge the 3850 ipaq(ie ~18hours=4%), using a standard UK plug.
> > I've been told that most appliances work fine, and the unit recharges normally in the UK.
> >
> > This obviously limits its usefulness, can anyone else confirm this, should anyone at compaq be informed?
> > This was using pc2002, but I cannot believe this effects the issue.
>
> UK and French power is identical. It has been for several years

Ah yes good point - electrons would have a problem telling which side of
the channel they're on... Now if you can only do the same with the
currency..

alas I digress :-)
\Terry
Received on Sun Jul 21 02:28:57 2002