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DanDombrowski
04-27-2006, 10:06 AM
Headed out for my 2 week european vacation on saturday. I got my 240V to 120V converter with the two small round holes, but I've recently been told that England uses a triple rectangular spade type connector. Funny, the guy at Radioshack mentioned nothing of this.

Do I need to get a plug converter for my power converter?

dacoyote
04-27-2006, 10:24 AM
ukm5 has a plug thats brown on the one end.....

ohhhh.. wait.. power plugs...

DaveVoorhis
04-27-2006, 10:50 AM
Here's a UK plug:

http://shark.armchair.mb.ca/~dave/PlugAndSocket/Plug.JPG

Here's a UK socket:

http://shark.armchair.mb.ca/~dave/PlugAndSocket/Socket.JPG

Apologies for the blurry socket.

Anthony (M5 in Calgary)
04-27-2006, 10:57 AM
Headed out for my 2 week european vacation on saturday. I got my 240V to 120V converter with the two small round holes, but I've recently been told that England uses a triple rectangular spade type connector. Funny, the guy at Radioshack mentioned nothing of this.

Do I need to get a plug converter for my power converter?


Here's all you never wanted to know about international power plug/sockets.

http://www.interpower.com/ic/guide.htm

DanDombrowski
04-28-2006, 03:38 AM
Awesome. Perfect, thank you. Gotta run to radio shack and pick one of those up.

Thanks again!