Electric Supply Pins Plugs Adapter etc explained

No soldering. Screwdriver and a sharp knife is minimum needed. An actual wire stripper helps, but is a luxury item.

Just so long as you know your own country's colour codes for live, neutral and earth, and where to put them on the new plug and how to make sure it is safe. I won't take the responsibility of instructing further but, as I said, Google has no such scruples!

It's really difficult not to find a small electrical shop in an Indian city - take the first small side road you see off any main road, I'll be amazed if you have to try more than three roads. In the larger cities there'll be pavement sellers with electronic junk including converter strips.

Electrical adapter advice for new arrivals - ask at your hotel reception: they'll either lend you what you want and/or point you to a shop that has it.

AndyD 8-)#

Not quite everything. It doesn't mention the problem with the "C" type 4 mm diameter pins vs. the 4.8 mm "F" type. I sometimes have to stack converters, and still have problems for example because a poor fit will cause the long stack to fall from a wall outlet.

I'm probably being stupid here but i have one question. The two pin European adaptors- Do they work or not work in India (they say they do online but i'm not too trusting) If not I assume I have to specifically get a UK to India plug adaptor?

Just wait till you get to India - UK compatible adapters are available everywhere at low cost.

AndyD 8-)₹

Will this adapter work in India? It came as part of a package and the packaging says it should but I don't see three prongs.

Yes - it will work

3 pins are only required for earthed equipment. This is a standard 2-pin unearthed plug

See ViShVa's comment. The beauty of your plug (I assume that there are three British holes at the other end) that it works in countries that have a ground/earth pin in the wall outlet.

Also, it will sit more securely in lots of outlets all over the world than the slim-pin Euro connectors that go with things like my shaver, phone charger, laptop etc., that often fail to connect or just fall out of Indian, Chinese, ... outlets.

It will also work with sockets that have flat earth contacts on either side (these are common in many EU countries).
Unfortunately Indian sockets heve neither an earth pin nor earth contacts at the side. Your adapter will work, but without an earth (ground).
See my post #155

AndyD 8-)₹

Awesome. This is the same one I used for Korea and the packaging said it would also work in India but the outlets are obviously different so I got confused. Thanks!

This is the only thing I needed to know.

I'll worry about it when I get there!