[ubuntu-uk] Dell & Ubuntu - gradually looking more hopeful

[Mark Harrison]

Other way round!

It's a "common" trick to fit a EuroPlug into a UK socket. This comes up 
when you run short of the appropriate type of kettle lead :-)

The preferred method of doing it is as follows:

- Take N-way mains adaptor
- Remove N-way mains adaptor from mains

- Insert flat-head screwdriver into mains pin on one of the sockets on 
the N-way
- This removes the sliding blanking plates from the live and earth pins...
... at which point the Euro-plug fits into the square UK socket with a shove
- Remove screwdriver

- Put N-way mains adaptor back into mains


1: DO NOT DO THIS TO A LIVE SOCKET :-) In fact, don't even do this to a 
socket "turned off with switch". You should only ever do it to something 
disconnected from the wall.

2: Where possible, use UK plugs! One of the reasons that the UK has so 
resisted the Eurosocket is that we have far fewer electrical fires - 
because all our plugs and sockets are earthed as standard!

Mark



Ian Pascoe wrote:
> You connect a 13 amp plug to a european socket with a pen knife?  Isn't that
> a bit, um, dangerous?
>
> <giggles manically>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Paul Sladen
> Sent: 28 June 2007 11:03
> To: British Ubuntu Talk
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell & Ubuntu - gradually looking more hopeful
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Kris Marsh wrote:
>   
>> Most PSUs these days seem to be rated 100-240V 50-60Hz, so [..] all you
>> need is a plug converter/travel adaptor.
>>     
>
> Changing countries is even simpler;  just replace the cable that goes from
> the wall-socket to the "cover-leaf" IEC C7 or "figure-of-8" IEC C5 socket on
> the PSU.
>
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_connector
>
> I carry a single Europlug->Modified C5 cable for both laptops and electric
> shaver---considerably smaller than the suppiled cables and easier to force
> into more socket types (all of Europe + British 13Amp with a pen{,knife}).
>
> 	-Paul
> --
> Why do one side of a triangle when you can do all three.   Helsinki, FI
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