![]() This is absolutely necessary because in countries which use Type G plugs, up to an entire floor of a building may be fed from a single very strong fuse or breaker, unlike in other countries where very many weaker fuses or breakers would be used. (This is, in fact what C-to-G adapters do, but they also add a necessary fuse between the live contact of the socket and the live pin of the plug.) Disable the power to the socket and try to use something non-conductive (a dry non-metallic object) to do this! Type G plugs and converters, unlike any other type used anywhere in the world have fuses in them. Caution: try this only if you know what you're doing! (Fire and/or electrocution are possible if you are inexperienced.)Īs a last resort, a Type C plug can be forced into a Type G socket without any converter at all if you ignore what your mother told you and stick a pen or similar pointy object into the center (ground) hole, which fools the socket into thinking a ground pin has been inserted and opens up the other holes. Unlike adapters, plugs are always available, and they're generally cheaper too. (The main exceptions are Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, and parts of China and Uruguay, which use a Type I plug with two slanted pins.) Adapters between Type A and Type C and from C toG are tiny and cheap converting Type A into G or Type G into anything else, on the other hand, needs a bulkier model.įor hobbyists: if you can't find an adapter, and you're staying for a longer time, just buy a separate plug at your destination, remove the existing plug, and attach the new one. If your device has one of these plugs and you can adapt it to the others, you have 90% of the world covered.
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