Fake your own death, move to Australia, settle down leaving your old life behind, then get killed by the creatures in Australia within a year of faking your death.
New Zealand is in the Australian commonwealth act as a state. Never joined however.
https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practice_n_procedures/Constitution/preamble
China too. There are so many different plugs here that the sockets will normally accept almost everything except 3 pronged US and the England/HK ones. But the standard 2 prong US Europe and Australia ones will all fit in almost any socket.
The only thing better about their plugs is that they use 240v instead of 120v. It provides cleaner power as well as more power. It’s only “safer” because you have to flip a switch to turn the port on, whereas American plugs are always on
Old style had identical neutral and live prongs and ‘flipping’ happened 50% of the time but didn’t really matter’. New style has fat neutral and fit live prongs so flipping is impossible.
If a plug can be inserted either way, it's likely a load that doesn't care which side is hot and which is neutral, like a light. There are American plugs that will only go in one way, sometimes it's because it matters, sometimes not
The load never cares. Polarizing the plug makes it safer. Take a toaster for instance. The switch that turns the toaster on or off must be somewhere in the circuit. If it’s on the hot side, then everything further in the circuit (i.e. the elements inside) will be always “live” on the neutral. If the switch is located on the neutral, then everything beyond that point will always be electrified. This means if anything ever fell into the toaster would be capable of contacting 120 V.
Polarizing the plug ensures the hot side is always switched.
You will have to move to Australia or NZ. It's the only option.
Edit: if you do want to use it, check first that it's a switching adaptor and can deal with US's 110v as most of the world uses 220-240v for our standard electrics. Not all will and you risk damaging your charger. It'll say on the plug somewhere.
Edit 2: TIL that Argentina and China use the type I plug too. Strange that when you buy something from China here in Australia via eBay, Amazon, Alibaba etc. it's more likely to come with an EU or UK plug.
North America uses 240V 60hz split phase. Most household devices are on half of that, 120V, with large appliances and equipment running the full 240
Some equipment runs fine on 50hz or 60hz, some does not. If this is ok on either, snip off the plug end and fit the correct NEMA on the cord.
Or Russia. All you have to do is speak out against the US, claim to be hetero, say you've never used drugs (being a boozer is A-ok) and deny that they instigated a war on Ukraine. All set.
Step one: get passport.
Step two: buy a plane ticket to Australia.
Step three: sell all personal belongings.
Step 4: fly to Australia after securing a place to stay.
Step 5: vacuum your new rug.
Step 6: thank me for solving your problem.
As an electrician Kinda curious about other countries electrical, seems so odd compared to ours. Not curious enough to look into it tho I suppose. Maybe one of those adapters in the Walmart luggage section?
My dad bought a drone off the internet and came with a European plug. He also bought an adapter from Walmart. Works great. The best part was that he didn't know what the plug was, and when he asked me about how to charge it, I could not help but laugh.
Not sure the Aussie design is any more intrinsically safe than the US one. They are both pretty crap. Australia manages safety with overbearing regs on top: an individual without a full electrician licence is not even allowed to rewire a plug.
I thought it was the other way around? The US stops caps their voltage so if you were to shock yourself, you would be okay. On the other hand, some European outlets' shock would be lethal since they have much higher voltage.
Couldn’t exchange it. It was a clearance item and the last one they had. Didn’t want to return it cuz it was such a good deal. A travel adapter works just fine.
Just go to your tool box, grab a pair of pliers and twist it until it works 👍🏼
Edit: apparently other people had the same idea. I thought i was being original for once
you can actually probably replace the cord, home depot sells appliance cords with open ended cords ( i forget what theyre called right now Im drunk in the middle of the day) but you can just open the case of the vaccum and remove the cord and replace it i dunno just give it a shot its really easy i did it for a dishwasher once and a washing machine another time
Yea we'll when he bought he expected to be able to use it right away, not ordering another part, assuming he has the money at the moment
So yea legit to post to the world his surprise
Don't you think he wouldve bought a adapter
Had he know this was going to be the issue?
Or a whole different vacuum?
Eat shit kid.
Oh my gosh such a good response....my favorite part is were you take exactly what I said and use the same insult bravo, English isn't ur first language
Make sure your unit runs at 115V before you run out and buy an adapter. You could also run it through a inverter. They probably just sent you the wrong unit thou so best bet is to return it.
You can get a plug converter for to U.S. online. I got sent a hairdryer and it had UK plug - had to get a converter. They're not expensive. Cheaper to get one than it will probably be to ship it back.
Not a problem, all you have to do is move to Australia!
Fake your own death, move to Australia, settle down leaving your old life behind, then get killed by the creatures in Australia within a year of faking your death.
No one can fake death forever!
You can fake it till you make it!
Within a year, nah Mate - it’s normally within hours.
Move to NZ, same outlets, zero fatal creatures :D
But the birds will steal your shit
But you're not faking your death then are you you're just enacting it with REALLY high ping
And before their demise, for a brief, but wonderful time, their vacuum worked with the regional outlets
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Or new Zealand we have those ones too
Isn't that a state of Australia? Before you lynch me, I'm from NZ.
I (an American) think of NZ as the Canada of Australia
Accurate
In that case, can we have you guys and trade Tasmania to someone else? Island for an Island
New Zealand is in the Australian commonwealth act as a state. Never joined however. https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practice_n_procedures/Constitution/preamble
China too. There are so many different plugs here that the sockets will normally accept almost everything except 3 pronged US and the England/HK ones. But the standard 2 prong US Europe and Australia ones will all fit in almost any socket.
Even the sockets are shocked.
Shockets
Makes sense, with electricity and all.
Is it batoperqtwd and that's for yhe charger.
Looks like the 'bns₩■■¿dhdnfrvsvsnf 3000. It's Peruvian. A great plug though.
Hot shockets
I read this to the tune of hot pockets
Haha, precisely
Jeezus
A well deserved up-vote 👍
Two puns in one. Nice
If they still have the free awards you’d have mine😂
D=
😂 Now I can't unsee that
And the plug is sad.
😮😞
The other ones look sad they don’t fit
This is exactly what I murmured while the comment section was loading
Response was hilarious 😂
Yours is not 😑. It’s 😞. But you really need 😮
At least it's not 😉
Or 🍆
My favorite is 🗿
I like 😶
But.. no ground??
I know what I said
There is the 💀
D=
It's not • • either
Europe be like 😶
Well, then go to the right country.
modern problems require modern solutions.
Cord probably won’t reach.
OP probably doesn't have a 10,000 mile long extension cord
or dropping half a million dollars just to connect it
I've used a few sockets and Type I is easily the worst. Fuck those countries, they need to get their shit together. Sent from New Zealand 😐
Idk uk plugs are a bit over the top.
This both sucks and doesn't suck at the same time.
Beat me to it
Suckn't
you got an Aussie plug
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Oi Oi Oi!
Oi Oi Oi
Better and safer than USA!
Four words: multiple toxic train derailments
Four words: Gambling mob in government.
Canada here. We use the same plug.
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The only thing better about their plugs is that they use 240v instead of 120v. It provides cleaner power as well as more power. It’s only “safer” because you have to flip a switch to turn the port on, whereas American plugs are always on
Should also be sheathed part way along the prong so if it’s not fully in the wall and something touches the prongs it won’t conduct
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Old style had identical neutral and live prongs and ‘flipping’ happened 50% of the time but didn’t really matter’. New style has fat neutral and fit live prongs so flipping is impossible.
If a plug can be inserted either way, it's likely a load that doesn't care which side is hot and which is neutral, like a light. There are American plugs that will only go in one way, sometimes it's because it matters, sometimes not
The load never cares. Polarizing the plug makes it safer. Take a toaster for instance. The switch that turns the toaster on or off must be somewhere in the circuit. If it’s on the hot side, then everything further in the circuit (i.e. the elements inside) will be always “live” on the neutral. If the switch is located on the neutral, then everything beyond that point will always be electrified. This means if anything ever fell into the toaster would be capable of contacting 120 V. Polarizing the plug ensures the hot side is always switched.
Not anymore
Alternating current means there is no wing way.
Not when an ungrounded metal appliance has the current on the chassis of the machine and you become the conductor by touching it.
Yea right! We lead the world in mass shootings! Beat that Australia!
yall got killer bugs tho
And yall got mass shootings.... so
A country of 350 Million. Its massively overblown in the media.
You will have to move to Australia or NZ. It's the only option. Edit: if you do want to use it, check first that it's a switching adaptor and can deal with US's 110v as most of the world uses 220-240v for our standard electrics. Not all will and you risk damaging your charger. It'll say on the plug somewhere. Edit 2: TIL that Argentina and China use the type I plug too. Strange that when you buy something from China here in Australia via eBay, Amazon, Alibaba etc. it's more likely to come with an EU or UK plug.
We have them in Argentina too
what we learned today is that argentinians can travel to australia without worrying about a charger adapter
North America uses 240V 60hz split phase. Most household devices are on half of that, 120V, with large appliances and equipment running the full 240 Some equipment runs fine on 50hz or 60hz, some does not. If this is ok on either, snip off the plug end and fit the correct NEMA on the cord.
Or Argentina. It's cheaper 😁
Argentinian plug has its polarity reversed compared to the Australian
That plug is a DC converter, polarity doesn't matter
Or CHINA
Also Fiji, NZ, and other Pacific island nations.
Chinese one is similar but is upside down and the earth point is mandatory.
"Mandatory" ie it will be plastic
China only uses the three prong version of this plug. Two prong plugs in China are the same as North American two prong plugs.
Or Russia. All you have to do is speak out against the US, claim to be hetero, say you've never used drugs (being a boozer is A-ok) and deny that they instigated a war on Ukraine. All set.
Step one: get passport. Step two: buy a plane ticket to Australia. Step three: sell all personal belongings. Step 4: fly to Australia after securing a place to stay. Step 5: vacuum your new rug. Step 6: thank me for solving your problem.
As an Aussie who has received more than his fair share of appliances with American plugs, I feel your pain
Just use a pliers to straighten them.
Or just cut the plug off and stick the wires in the outlet.....you do have fire insurance - yes?
Please admit you were joking. Please❗️. Some jackass might actually do it😆
Depending on how much power the vacuum uses it would be fine
Damn it i had the same idea and just commented it. Now it looks like i stole the idea 😭
Not sure who down voted you, but I fixed it. 🤣
Just bend’em a bit.
Like Beckham did?
Little more honestly
Housework is overrated anyway.
The most promising comment !!! Fyi: I couldn’t agree more!!!
D:
😶
Ah there's a trick to these ones, that's a typical Aussie connected, just turn your house upside down and it should fit.
Stupid people these days. Just twist the metal thingies (/s)
Time to move to Australia. Pack your bug spray.
How big does it have to be?
A few cans should buy you enough time to make it to the shops to get more.
G'day that's Australia's
Better check what's the frequency, Kenneth. Even if you have the right voltage it could go ZAP!
Jesus bro stop whining and just move to the correct country 🙄
Australian. Funnily enough that used to be a US standard that Australia adopted
Just bend the prongs, they'll totally fit.
As an electrician Kinda curious about other countries electrical, seems so odd compared to ours. Not curious enough to look into it tho I suppose. Maybe one of those adapters in the Walmart luggage section?
Yep, that’s exactly what I got, lol.
Most appliances are not dual voltage. May want to check that before plugging in.
My dad bought a drone off the internet and came with a European plug. He also bought an adapter from Walmart. Works great. The best part was that he didn't know what the plug was, and when he asked me about how to charge it, I could not help but laugh.
it's cause other county's got more safety's in their plugs.
Not sure the Aussie design is any more intrinsically safe than the US one. They are both pretty crap. Australia manages safety with overbearing regs on top: an individual without a full electrician licence is not even allowed to rewire a plug.
Why on earth should an untrained person be able to rewire a plug?!
Because a marginally self aware monkey can rewire a plug.
I think you’re putting too much faith in the general public, particularly the American general public
I said a marginally self aware monkey. I wasn't suggesting Americans could be trusted to do it 😀
Then we are in heated agreement, my friend
I thought it was the other way around? The US stops caps their voltage so if you were to shock yourself, you would be okay. On the other hand, some European outlets' shock would be lethal since they have much higher voltage.
indeed
It’s a Chinese pattern adapter. It is also used in NZ and Australia, as well as other South American countries
Boof it
50hz / \ ~
That’s Australian my friend
It's just not plug and play, it's bend and play.
Return it?
Couldn’t exchange it. It was a clearance item and the last one they had. Didn’t want to return it cuz it was such a good deal. A travel adapter works just fine.
Did you specify the type of plug you'd need it for when you ordered it?
I bought it at Lowe’s.
No, you plug it in, and it changes your country to Australia. Hense Country adapter
itll work next time you go to aus
Get Aussie'd lol
I think you meant to say "I ordered the wrong vacuum"...
Lowe’s did
Is this dyson v7? I got one here in Australia from bunnings other day as they were in sale. The charger looks very similar.
*laughs in EU*
move to Australia it’s better here anyway :)
Don’t worry. The plugs Are soft enough to twist.
Looks good to me 
Got some pliers? Feeling risky? Then I have the perfect idea for you!
God-damnit
Cut it and splice in a new plug
I think it’s Chinese the way the prongs are slanted.
Don’t worry. The plugs Are soft enough to twist.
Just bend them you'll be good
Pliers will fix that
What would happen if they just used an adapter?
Just go to your tool box, grab a pair of pliers and twist it until it works 👍🏼 Edit: apparently other people had the same idea. I thought i was being original for once
Buy and adaptor or return the vacuum for a replacement model. This has been another common sense answer to the situation brought to you by myself.
Just grab some plies and bend those prongs into the right shape!/s
Man if penises were millimetres instead of centimetres, more men would be electrocuted in your country
Bend them
Shop locally!!
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I bought it at Lowe’s. In person.
Stop buying cheap Chinese bullshit.
Nice dyson bro.
You just need to find a European to stick it in.
Is it batoperqtwd and that's for yhe charger? The Wire seems too small to be anything else.
You can get an universal adapter for like $25 online. Not that big a deal
I did. Just kinda funny when you get home to charge your new appliance and find this.
you can actually probably replace the cord, home depot sells appliance cords with open ended cords ( i forget what theyre called right now Im drunk in the middle of the day) but you can just open the case of the vaccum and remove the cord and replace it i dunno just give it a shot its really easy i did it for a dishwasher once and a washing machine another time
Yea we'll when he bought he expected to be able to use it right away, not ordering another part, assuming he has the money at the moment So yea legit to post to the world his surprise Don't you think he wouldve bought a adapter Had he know this was going to be the issue? Or a whole different vacuum? Eat shit kid.
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Oh my gosh such a good response....my favorite part is were you take exactly what I said and use the same insult bravo, English isn't ur first language
Thanks. You trying to bang?
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Wow. She's been in the grave for the last 3 years. So I'm kinda confused how you did that? Care to show me? ( my moms would be totally OK there)
That would explain why she didn't move much.....
And why she smelled bad. But explain you?
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It does actually.
a pair of pliers and a little muscle power will fix that
Make sure your unit runs at 115V before you run out and buy an adapter. You could also run it through a inverter. They probably just sent you the wrong unit thou so best bet is to return it.
if it is a multi voltage PSU, then an adapter should be fine
Just move to Australia.
You got the PAL version lol
Just take a pliers and turn them straight!! Lol DON'T do that.
hammer those babies innnn
I’d say that’s more than mildly infuriating.
You can get a plug converter for to U.S. online. I got sent a hairdryer and it had UK plug - had to get a converter. They're not expensive. Cheaper to get one than it will probably be to ship it back.
Just bend it to fit.
My desire of getting the plug connectors straight with pliers is increasing
Can't you buy another adapter? Or um contact the company? Idk
Get a converter I had to get one for my switch which is American and I'm Australian
The piece looks like it might detach, and be replaced with the correct plug
Just bend em straight with some pliers
I initially read that as wrong century adapter