Voltage

[joe_alison]

Hi its me again!

Been to Turkey several times now and understand the electrical sockets are different from GB, and thus I have been taking the relevant adapters to support my chargers etc. However, now we are planning to move to Turkey I was wondering if I can simply plug in some house electrical items and the adapters will be able to support these?

I await your superior knowledge . . .

Kind regards

Joe

[bewva]

Joe the easiest thing is to buy a load of plugs from one of the many electrical shops and put Turkish plugs on any UK appliances you take over.

[joe_alison]

Talk about go back to the basics! That was so simple, that's we I need you guys! Many thanks

Joe

[Twin Bee]

I am not an electrician but will this idea work ie be safe if products need an earth?
TB

[Crabbit]

Turkish plugs have an earth

[puma]

any visual demos for the ladies my fella will not go near any electrics

[bewva]

Not all Turkish plugs have an earth, most stuff you take will not need one as they don't have an earth cable such as hair dryer, curling tongs, straighteners, dvd player, stereo etc. things like kettles & toasters are likely to have an earth wire fitted.
As for fitting; 2 wire appliaces if fitting to a 2 pin plug 1 wire to each pin. 3 wire appliances use a 3 pin plug green & yellow wire to the earth pin which normally has a metal stap which comes out of the side of the plug & the other 2 wires 1 to each of the 2 pins.
I really is straight forward.
Paul

[Scunner]

This is a genuine question from a non-electrician type []

Can anyone explain to me (in simple terms) why, when we have to make sure we wire the live and the neutral correctly in the UK to prevent blowing ourselves up, the same UK plug can have a Turkish/European adapter fitted to it and can be put in a Turkish socket either way round.

Just one of the little things in life I ponder  

[bewva]

The honest answer Scunner is it does'nt really matter in that the supply is a.c. (alternating current) so the supply alternates anyway.
Convention in the uk is to wire to the known standard of brown live & blue neutral and it is helped by the fact we can only put plugs in one way up. Switches are always on the live side etc in the UK and it helps when fault finding on an appliance. Every other country I know the plugs can go in either way.
Paul

[Scunner]

Right

Erm

Ok

Thanks