3rd June 2005, 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted by NM
...Of course the biggest problem, as I explain it so my US colleagues before they come to Australia, is that with our electricity supply being double their voltage, they need to ensure they bring a supply of batteries for their gadgets (cameras, MP3, walkman, gameboys etc). If they buy a AA battery in Australia, it may damage their device since we have 3V AA batteries and they use 1.5V batteries. And don't lick the terminals of our 9V batteries because they are really 18V down here  . Its amazing how many of them bite - almost as many as bite on my metric time explanation of my theory of darkness  . |
Goodness, NM, you had me going what tha ...? for a bit!
Too early in the day for that sort of stuff :?
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