Figure eight connectors like that input line voltage. So even if the charge voltage is different, the chargers still require the same line voltage.
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kent_eh@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Is the charge voltage the same on both?
Chainweasel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 months ago
These are smaller plugs than the figure-eight cords you’re thinking of that plug into old boomboxes, Playstations, etc. They’re DC voltage, not AC.
The WTF here is not that the manufacturer changed the connector slightly, it’s that they were too cheap to include the AC-to-DC converter part of it like they did on their older models, so OP has to buy a USB wall wart to power the stupid thing. The fact that he can’t use the old charger with the new shaver is just an irritating side effect.
Chainweasel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I have the same razor. I promise you that it’s not DC. It’s a regular plug that passes 120/60 to the device.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Any company that’s passing 120 (or god forbid 240v) into those tiny little plugs with almost no insulation between them is begging to be sued for electrocuting people. No device used in the bathroom should be passing straight 120v through a connector like that.
Magister@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I guess not, the USB one is 5V obviously, but the other one can be 12, 7.2, 8.4, 3.2, whatever