It is the bane of worldwide travel: there isn’t just one way to get AC power from the wall. The exact connector — and what you can expect when you plug in — differs from country to country. Even if ...

It’s happened to all of us: The center pin of a Type “N” connector gets deformed, as seen in Fig. 1. The resulting poor connection can be frustrating. As Murphy’s Law would have it, there is no spare ...