2Pin to 3pin Plug

Figment

@Iconic

There appears to be considerable confusion about whether you're trying to replace a plug, or a plug-in transformer. It would help if you took a photo of your '2 pin plug' and posted it here.

Norman_Castle

Does the plug look like this?

Iconic

Figment wrote: »

There appears to be considerable confusion about whether you're trying to replace a plug, or a plug-in transformer. It would help if you took a photo of your '2 pin plug' and posted it here.

I am trying to replace the plug below with a 3pin plug to save space.Does the plug below have a transformer in it? If it hasn't could I just cut the wire and replace the 2pin with a 3pin?

Norman_Castle wrote: »

Does the plug look like this?

Yes thats the one. Has this written on it..

'Input 100-240v-50/60Hz 0.3A
Output 9V 0.6A

ITE Power Supply'

ChiefGrasscutter

To be pedantic:
That is a switched mode power supply with a Euro style pins on it suitable for putting in Continental European type socket.

In simple terms the unit has electronics inside that convert the input mains voltage to the output one - 9V in this case. The unit's output will be matched to whatever item it is powering and you cannot simply exchange it for anything else that happens to be around the house.

You need a convertor between a euro socket and a UK style one like in post No 6 above.

espresso

ChiefGrasscutter wrote: »

To be pedantic:
That is a switched mode power supply with a Euro style pins on it suitable for putting in Continental European type socket.

In simple terms the unit has electronics inside that convert the input mains voltage to the output one - 9V in this case. The unit's output will be matched to whatever item it is powering and you cannot simply exchange it for anything else that happens to be around the house.

To be pedantic:
That is not a switched mode power supply, it would be much less bulky and weigh next to nothing if it was switched mode.

ChiefGrasscutter wrote: »

You need a convertor between a euro socket and a UK style one like in post No 6 above.

Agreed.

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Oblivion

Iconic wrote: »

I am trying to replace the plug below with a 3pin plug to save space.Does the plug below have a transformer in it? If it hasn't could I just cut the wire and replace the 2pin with a 3pin?




Yes thats the one. Has this written on it..

'Input 100-240v-50/60Hz 0.3A
Output 9V 0.6A

ITE Power Supply'

The very fact that your plug has Mains input voltages and only 9 volts out written on it, means that it is a transformer. You plug it into the 240 volt mains and it supplies only 9 volts to your device.

If you cut this off and replace it with a simple mains 3 pin plug, the transformer is gone and you will be supplying 240 volt mains direct to your device ... result, big bang and possibly a fire!

Hope that's now clear.

Oblivion

Iconic wrote: »

But I am still confused!

I changed my razor's 2pin to a three pin many years ago and I am still alive.

That's because in this case the transformer circuitry is built into the body of your shaver.

Iconic

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Iconic

Oblivion wrote: »

The very fact that your plug has Mains input voltages and only 9 volts out written on it, means that it is a transformer. You plug it into the 240 volt mains and it supplies only 9 volts to your device.

If you cut this off and replace it with a simple mains 3 pin plug, the transformer is gone and you will be supplying 240 volt mains direct to your device ... result, big bang and possibly a fire!

Hope that's now clear.

Certainly is thanks.

It still begs the question if this http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-S.../dp/B000FNFSPY is supplied with a three pin plug where is the transformer?

Up to a few years ago electrical appliances were supplied without a plug so this would not have been a problem.

Shouldn't there be some control on the supply of 2 pin plugs like this to prevent people like me doing what I am now not going to do?