Are adaptors for 3 prongs -> 2 prongs readily available in Japan (either at stores or hotels)?
Evan :-> “); //]]>–> Reply With Quote 10th April 2005 02:56 PM #2 oz_mark Senior Member Join Date Jun 2002 Location Melbourne Posts 8,110 FF Prog QF FF, SQ KF, DJ Velocity, MH enrich Does the third prong (the earth) actually connect to anything? Most transformers etc now are double insulated and don’t need the earth. Does the power go to a transformer first and then to a laptop? If the transformer is marked as double insulated ( the symbol is a square inside another square ), then maybe the arth connection is not used. Reply With Quote 10th April 2005 04:09 PM #3 cabbage74 Junior Member Join Date Mar 2005 Posts 91 You will have more luck finding the correct adapter here than in Japan. Most adapters here will have a Female Australian socket with the foreign socket being Male. Although I haven’t ever checked, I believe that you would most likely find that Japanese stores sell the adapters with Japanese Female and the foreign (to Japan) socket being the Male side. Does the socket you req
