Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Calis Beach Questions and Information => Topic started by: joe_alison on May 19, 2008, 19:25:48 PM
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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
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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.
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Talk about go back to the basics! That was so simple, that's we I need you guys! Many thanks
Joe
:D
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I am not an electrician but will this idea work ie be safe if products need an earth?
TB
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Turkish plugs have an earth
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any visual demos for the ladies my fella will not go near any electrics
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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
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This is a genuine question from a non-electrician type [:o]
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 :)
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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
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Right
Erm
Ok
Thanks ;)
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Is that you speechless, Mr. Scunner?
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As I understand it (usual talking b******s disclaimer applies), In the UK you have live, neutral and earth coming in to the property.
The Neutral and Earth are connected together at the substation so are effectively the same.
The Live carries 220v AC which means it goes from 0v to 220v and back every 20 milliseconds (50hz) but as voltage is only a potential difference between two points, the 220v AC is relative to the Earth/neutral.
The reason we earth *everything* in the UK(including water/heating pipes etc) is so that if a stray live wire touches anything metal, it will take the shortest route to earth, ie down the wire to the substation rather than through the poor sap touching it.
The problem with this is that if for some reason you have a dodgy or broken earth, a faulty live can potentially[1] make everything that is earthed live (very rare though).
If you have circuit breakers fitted, and you really should, these will generally trip out if anything untoward happens and stop you getting a shock.
Some countries take the alternative view that if you only earth stuff that really needs it, like toasters, kettles, heaters etc, then if your hairdryer goes duff, your bath taps won't go live. Again, circuit breakers will pop out as soon as the appliance starts failing and should prevent shock (and can also prevent them catching light).
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Well, that's about as clear as Turkey Coffee! LOL
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What the hell after all that why not buy everything in Turkey and enjoy. I think but not sure (only gleaned this info from those who have posted on CBF) that you might be limited on UK electricals taken into the Turkey- taxes etc may prohibit this as an option and then the cost of plugs etc.
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what you also got to watch is that some turkish cable ain't up to the job of carrying the load, which is why on some developments you get a lot of power trips when the demand is high on site.also can effect voltage which can damage things like Tv's.