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[professor]

For any given Wattage, USA electric wiring are safer than USA as the halving of the voltage means a doubling of the current, so the cable has to be 40% thicker to be safer in USA than in EU.

The issue is therefore the voltage and if the circuit breaker is triggered by Voltage or current. If it’s triggered by Voltage (unlikely) then the powerstrip will simply never work in EU. If triggered by current, it will under-fail and be way over its Wattage rating before tripping.

I’m now about 85% through a fairly intense electronics course. I’m only able to do about 1-2 hours study on it a day.

[Chiquinho]

Reading?
Who does reading?
Pictograms are enough.

[chrisjwaggoner]

I never would have thought of that. I don’t doubt that someone has tried it before. Man it’s adding at least person a minute from my last post haha. 222 now.

[chrisjwaggoner]

You know the saying, there is a picture there for a reason. Someone was stupid enough to do it

[professor]

In general domestic home appliances with motors, like hairdryers, will only work at the specific electrical types of the country intended. Many motors use the specific frequency of AC. But most electronics today are designed for travel and are international. So if you were to take this Powerstrip intended for USA electricity, plug it into EU socket via a socket converter, items like a Powerport, a laptop charger, etc would all work. The current down all the wires within the Powerstrip would be half, the voltage double, but very unlikely to make a spark. The issue would be the circuit breaker’s safety mechanism possibly may not work and the person could be defenseless against a short and receive a lethal shock.

For that reason, even though we kid around, just use it for intended purpose and location.

[Chiquinho]

So I forgot something!
beside all the tools I mentioned.
The European tester need such one:

Ja, I know we are kidding around.
But dont we need some jokes in those serious times?

[professor]

[Chiquinho]

I give you here a very intimate view in my testing lab!
But shht! its a private secret!

[professor]

We catch Franz testing Powerstrip outside of the official legal home of USA

[Chiquinho]

But normally I never will surrender!

[professor]

Some people need obvious instructions.

[ikari04warrior]

I’ll enter this “testing event”

[AnkerOfficial]

What are the odds of people that aren’t even in the US applying for this

The percentage is quite high I have to say

[TechMan]

There’s a reason they call me “The All Knowing TechMan”

[jercox]

I tossed my entry into the ring as well. The odds are getting worse by the minute…

[Shivam_Shah]

Well I put in mine as well. Highly doubt I’ll get selected so let’s just see

[ktkundy]

What electronics course is it? If it’s on YouTube can you share a link?

[Shenoy]

Literally everything, every subject is available online, if someone needs to learn anything.

Just need some dedication and focus!!

Your best friend - Google Search or Bing Search.

[ktkundy]

Agreed but I was just wondering if he found a good one. Because just because there are a whole bunch online doesn’t mean that all of them are good, I’ve wasted a couple hours watching videos only to find that the audio cuts out part way or that it isn’t as good as I had hoped

[professor]

The limit is yourself ultimately, how much you care to only memorise vs understand. Electronics is mostly understanding the Electromagnetic force, but ever since semiconductors you have to understand chemistry, which forces you into Quantum Mechanics. Probably in total it is about 10-15 years total learning.

I will say that Isaac Newton was much smarter than Albert Einstein, but history remembers it differently.

A good course which does not let you simply memorise but understand is this one, it is not electronics but the electromagnetics part. If you go through it then Quantum Mechanics then becomes the next issue, so link to both.

I’m stuck at Quantum Gravity, but Einstein was too.