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by marshray 5232 days ago
So the charger sees the 120 V, decides to begin charging, current flows, and the voltage drops. If the voltage drops out of range, the charger aborts because it's out of design spec and/or there's a significant amount of power being dissipated, probably by resistive heating (i.e., risk of fire).

This is probably necessary to achieve UL rating.