Thanks all for the sanity check.  By the way, my three prong wall wart that I received had a third prong made of hard plastic.  

Go figure. 

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Gerhard Fiedler
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 9:30 PM
To: piclist@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [OT] The third prong in the plug

Peter wrote:

> Both. The brit plugs have both a fuse and a ground prong. You can 
> replace it with a Schuco plug, European style. 

FWIW, that's "Schuko", as in "Schutzkontakt", something like "protective
contact". It's originally German; I'm not sure the other Europeans (or
which of them) would consider it European-style.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuko

Gerhard

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