Japanese circuits are 100-110V and 15-20 amps, they’re way less hazardous than European 240 V power, especially the UK version that’s like 40-60 amp ring circuits.
That said it’s still wild to me that the adapters are common.
Another wild Japanese power infrastructure fact is that one end of the island bought generators from the US and the other end bought generators from Europe. American companies built 60 Hz generators and European countries built 50 Hz generators. That propagated and there’s still half the island on 60 Hz and half the island on 50 Hz power.
Yup. And the power grids don’t connect, obviously.
As another safety factor there are mandated Japan standards for internal insulation in electronics to protect against case shorts… which of course only applies for things manufactured or legally imported into Japan.
Plus all internal wiring in new places is on the Japan equivalent of a GFCI.
For my computer/music area I don’t care about any of that and literally run my own ground wire down from my air conditioner’s 240V circuit and ground everything I can to it.
So I just wanted to share an update. That USB filter I linked above seems to have resolved the noise and the crashing. Fingers crossed! I did here a tiny bit of hum when I ran the benchmark but those are supposed to be REALLY taxing.
So far tonight I’ve hopped into a few games that were giving me trouble and had 0 noise issues. Hoping this will also clean up the 2i2’s noise issue I had with recording my bass
