Power Adaptor.

[Joachim Ott]

2009/2/7 Alex (Maxious) Sadleir <maxious at gmail.com>:
> It happened to me once too! Australian 240V plug.
>
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Chris Syntichakis <chris at c-64.mobi> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had a nice experience with the power adaptor. I just charged the FR and
>> after this, I took of the adaptor from the mains. Then accidentally, I
>> touched both the pins of the plug (of the adaptor) and guess that.. I felt
>> a
>> small shock!
>>
>> Now, what's this? Bad construction? of they forgot to put a some
>> diodes...?
>>

I think what happened to both of you is called potential equalisation
(Potentialausgleich).