 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi Gang,
Is it safe to plug a UK multi plug adaptor into a single European travel plug? eg. charge a phone and a camera at the same time.
I was hoping this would be a cheaper option than buying 3 or 4 travel adaptors.
Apologies if this is the wrong forum!
Thanks,
Ian
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I do and nothing has gone bang yet. 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ardsian, I put a European plug (spare lead that came with a PC or something) on a six way - two minute job - have been using it for years. The adaptor is probably fine though.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Of course it is fine. The chargers draw a tiny current, probably a fraction of an amp. The adaptor must surely be rated at 13 amps, and if not, then surely certainly 5amps.
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Ardsian, I hope so......... says he running TV, DVD, Stereo, Satelite box, laptop and light off a multi socket!!
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Thanks guys. Thought I'd check. Better safe than sorry!
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Ardsian,
I am no electrical expert but the crucial thing at the end of the day is how manty total amps you are drawing through the adaptor / french socket. If you still have the UK 3 pin plug on the end of your multiadaptor then the most you can pull is the rating of the fuse in that, normally 13amp. This is Ok for lots of phone chargers, laptops etc. The only problem, certainly in France is that it can be possible to plug your travel plug into a socket without an earth, (in France the earth in the socket is a male "pin" that goes into the plug the opposite way round to the power pins) that is intended to run only lighting and this circuit may only have a 6amp fuse or breaker on it. So if you plugged your laptop, your travel iron (for waxing yourskis of course) and a huge ghetto blaster into your multiadaptor you could blow the trip. However just to put into perspective you will find french people create the most amazing structures by plugging a 4 way into a 4 way into a 2 way into the socket in the wall and have a huge spaghetti of wires trailing from them powering averything in the room and they don't seem to worry at all.
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