amplifer for old tv earphone jack?

[Arfa Daily]

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I haven't done any of these things, but truth be told, if there were
no electrical outlet in the bathroom, I'd run an extension cord from
whereever there was one. (and when I had time, I'd put in an outlet.)

But Americans use the outlet for a lot of things, hair dryer, electric
toothbrush... As early as 1968, I was on a house tour** and on the
long counter in the bathroom were both of these and a "facial sauna",
which iiuc blew warm moist air on the user's face when she leaned into
the "funnel" part of it. If I'd had a camera I would have taken a
picture of the array, which they seemed to be proud of. That was 45
years ago. By now there must be lots of other electrical things for
the bathroom, though I don't know of any. --- Well, there are
waterfproof radios and telephones for the shower stall itself, but
they run on batteries and aren't dangerous.

I visit America quite often, usually staying in private villas in Florida,
and hotels in Vegas, and I have always been amazed that there are electrical
outlets in both cases, within a foot of wash basins. Also that things like
hand-held hair dryers are provided and obviously intended to be plugged into
those outlets. This would not be allowed by the zoning codes in the U.K.,
GFI protected or not.

For sure, we have shaver points, but these are usually built into a wall
mounted strip light, and are transformer isolated. Electric toothbrush
chargers invariably have a two pin shaver plug on them, so that they can
plug into the same outlet

Arfa

 

[micky]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 02:14:31 -0000, "Arfa Daily"
<arfa.daily@ntlworld.com> wrote:

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I haven't done any of these things, but truth be told, if there were
no electrical outlet in the bathroom, I'd run an extension cord from
whereever there was one. (and when I had time, I'd put in an outlet.)

But Americans use the outlet for a lot of things, hair dryer, electric
toothbrush... As early as 1968, I was on a house tour** and on the
long counter in the bathroom were both of these and a "facial sauna",
which iiuc blew warm moist air on the user's face when she leaned into
the "funnel" part of it. If I'd had a camera I would have taken a
picture of the array, which they seemed to be proud of. That was 45
years ago. By now there must be lots of other electrical things for
the bathroom, though I don't know of any. --- Well, there are
waterfproof radios and telephones for the shower stall itself, but
they run on batteries and aren't dangerous.

I visit America quite often, usually staying in private villas in Florida,
and hotels in Vegas, and I have always been amazed that there are electrical
outlets in both cases, within a foot of wash basins. Also that things like
hand-held hair dryers are provided and obviously intended to be plugged into
those outlets. This would not be allowed by the zoning codes in the U.K.,
GFI protected or not.

For sure, we have shaver points, but these are usually built into a wall
mounted strip light, and are transformer isolated. Electric toothbrush
chargers invariably have a two pin shaver plug on them, so that they can
plug into the same outlet

As you probably know by now, we don't have special two pin sockets.

And I had forgotten about electric razors**, which don't even have to
be used in the bathroom, except I guess there is a mirror there. But
why does one need a mirror to find his face?

**I found out in college that if I stopped shaving, my pimples went
away. I thought having a beard would make it harder to wash my face
and that would make the pimples worse, but there seemed to be no truth
in that. (The important thing was not to grind up the whiskers and
force the pieces into my pores. )

Then I figured out that I could still shave with a blade.

Arfa

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

micky wrote:

And I had forgotten about electric razors**, which don't even have to
be used in the bathroom, except I guess there is a mirror there. But
why does one need a mirror to find his face?

Most people aren't pinheads. ;-)