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darwin award waiting to happen
Would be so much more appropriate if it was a Mac…
…But it IS a PC!
I’ll ship them a laptop cord……sheesh!
I could see some circumstances where I’d be desperate enough to try this…if you are careful the worst you are likely to do is blow a circuit breaker. Maybe damage the adapter.
This is of course assuming you are the only one around, and you put it somewhere that you aren’t likely to touch or have something fall on. And unplug it when you are done!
I did a similar setup, just enclosed it in a platic box (an emptied toolbox) with the 2 cables going out of it
Whhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy???????????
Umm what about the ground?? Say goodbye 2 your laptop cuz its going to fry soon,
that is if the steel ur using even conducts.
It is not going to blow…
Unless there is some earth fault in the power supply (ie inside it, not the disconnected earth outside, and this fault cannot be caused by the missing earth connection). Or there is the nasty Y capacitor. Then the enire laptop is at 240V AC above earth
Plug in a monitor or USB something, connecting this potential to external earth through the VGA or USB port, well now you got some damage
So if you are plugging in say a monitor, do it like this : Unplug the power supply (so the laptop is on battery), connect or disconnect monitor, plug back in. This way the earth path is guaranteed to go through the earth conductor of the VGA or USB cable, and not through the data wires even momentarily
And, steel does conduct. If it wouldn’t, this would simply not work but not make any damage either… And you would even be safely able to touch it
Steel is a shit conductor,yes it dose conduct but the resistant is so high its retarded as a viable wire. and the ground is there for a reason static build up. I admit it would most likely one fry the psu, but it could well sort a resistor and spike the laptops internal relay.
The ground isn’t necessary, even for static. My laptop (also Lenovo) has a power supply that only has hot and neutral.
And steel, for that short of a conductor, is just fine.
My Toshiba doesn’t have a ground either. Nor do my USB wall chargers.
Tell ya what…
Left hand – Hot wire
Right Hand – anything steel and earthed in your house… like your kitchen sink…
Now tell us all again how steel is a **** conductor…
lol KABOOM!
…or just connect the earth as well?
Just add some duct tape and it will be perfectly safe
Well, if the clever clever people at IBM made cables with mainstream bloody connections, we’d be able to ask a friend if we could borrow a cable and… Muppets over at Western Digital have similarly decided that a USB isn’t a USB without adding their own design.
That’s a perfectly standard mainstream connection, I have half a dozen of those cables lying around from various bits of equipment.
It’s an IEC 60320 C6 socket, for which you use a cable with a IEC 60320 C5 connector. They’re not hard to get, I have several of them lying around.
The combo you get on most PCs is C13/C14, for what it’s worth.