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Tsiklon
65 days ago
The extension cable they used to include in box with the computers, it has the third pin for the charger brick connector which is wired to ground
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15155
65 days ago
There's zero chance that the DC ground in the laptop is tied to earth ground in the charger: they use LLC resonant converters and flyback converters (depending on vintage) - an earth ground tie would defeat the purpose of these isolated topologies.
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jahnu
64 days ago
However it’s wired up the fact is the electric buzzing feeling goes away if you use a grounded extension cable instead of two pin.
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namibj
64 days ago
No they isolate L and N not PE.
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