Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Sylvia Else Newsgroups: aus.cars,aus.electronics Subject: Re: OT: Pedestal fan purchase Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 11:06:22 +1100 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <6572389d@news.ausics.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net jVE5v2hW8a6RHcN1G6vK2wdOg7Ux7+FzVtsGCcXwq2jQ2l28dP Cancel-Lock: sha1:lGP3XClYsh12CeA/KwOa0BznxaU= sha256:3tlOmH3ia8ux1oK01eP23tZ2ZGYbdxfTfmvImkBZrYI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.15.1 Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com aus.cars:363045 aus.electronics:35668 On 08-Dec-23 10:59 am, Xeno wrote: > On 8/12/2023 8:26 am, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >> In aus.cars Sylvia Else wrote: >>> On 08-Dec-23 4:09 am, Rod Speed wrote: >>>>> Something to watch out for. >>>> >>>> Why are you assuming that it's a bad thing ? >>> >>> If you like wall-warts everywhere, then fine. >> >> Huh. I can see a few reasons why I wouldn't like a DC pedestal fan, >> but I honestly never thought that anyone would be bothered by the >> meer presence of a plugpack on a wall. >> >> I suppose they can be awkward to use with extension lead though, >> which a fan could often be used with. >> > Wall Warts are a PITA. The company buys in a heap of wall warts that are > already Aus certified for 230V so they don't need to have the fan itself > certified. Cheaping out is all it is. > > What puzzles me is how quickly the models change, which presumably means they have to be re-certified. Are consumers really so shallow that they'll refuse to buy something that was already available a year ago? Sylvia.