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I'm no electrician - but my two pin european phone charger works fine in the three pin sockets. You can also buy socket adapters here that can allow any plug known to mankind fit into the Indian three round pin socket. Virtually every grocery or hardware shops sells them. That's because appliances sold here can have any type of plug attached apparently at random.
It's also very easy to buy multi-plug surge protection extension leads that have the same fancy socket that will take UK square 3 pin, euro 2 pin, small and large Indian round 3 pin and something I've never actually seen that has two little pins in the middle ..... all at the same time! Trust me - you'll need several of these. To run my Korean TV with it's Indian set top box and Japanese DVD player brought from the UK - I have adapters in adapters plugged into extensions with adapters in ![]() |
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#32 |
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Power outlet picture
This is what the power outlets looked like at many hotels we stayed at. Seems like quite a range of adapters could fit into it.
http://www.indiamike.com/photopost/s...ppus er=17745 Sorry I don't know how to make that a thumbnail - can someone help with that? Thanks. |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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Any place but Palika Bazaar
Last year we went to the Palika Bazaar at Connaught Place to get a converter. It was cheap and worked fine. Only thing is, I left it in the wall on our last day. Oh, and also something else, I didn't like the vibe I got from the touts at Palika Bazaar. Two guys at a belt display were "measuring me", meaning sticking their hands in my pockets and searching for money belt under my shirt.
I don't want to have to go back to that place to get a new one when we return to India (in only 5 weeks!!!). Can someone name a place where we can go this time. I'm only asking because I'll be too star struck to find one myself. Thanks. |
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: ~ Dilli ~
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you can find that most of the local electricity shops...there are shops selling stuff like cables, bulbs, plugs, boards etc. you might want to ask them.
Or if you visit Chandni Chowk OR Red Fort, then bang opposite red fort at the starting of Chandni chow you will find couple Markets ..they are known as Bhagirath Place and Lala Lajpat Rai Market...you can try there..you will surely get one there.. Regarding touts in Palika Bazaar, they really are a handful and you have to be very assertive with them...in the center of the market they do have a post..just go an complain there.. |
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: U.K
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Photo of Plugs bought in India
Wandering socket 20/-
3pin to square, you name it plug 25/- Last edited by machadinha : Dec 6th, 2007 at 20:59. Reason: merged threads |
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Is that currency symbol ( /- ) to mean rupees?
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Yes it means indian rupee
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#38 |
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Thanks!
That sounds very reasonable. Now the next question is if Australian plugs would fit into that funny-looking socket? It looks like they probably would - in fact it is hard to imagine something that wouldn't! I haven't found adapters for India anywhere in Australia yet, and the prices of ones that look like they might be about right are the equivalent of about 360 rupees, with no guarantee they would work. So hopefully I can pick up one of these somewhere in Delhi when I arrive there next month? |
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yeh..you will get them easily in market of delhi or anywhere in india..
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Thanks for the quick answer!
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Canada
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Some other people mentionned surge protectors...I can understand the need of a surge protector for laptops, etc. But for small things, like a battery recharger, is a surge protector necesssary? I'm not sure if batteries can cause fireworks with the right/wrong 'encouragement', but rather not experiment ... ???
(physics class was oh so long ago...) |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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We ended up buying an adapter in the electronics alley off Chandni Chowk. It worked fine with batteries and the razor. Nothing exploded. In fact, the batteries recharged extra-quick, it seemed.
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#43 |
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: U.K
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Lightweight and cheap, the wandering socket weighs 1 /10th of a clumsy UK one, and fits Indian sockets.
Mods can this be a sticky pls |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: yörp
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Better yet, it's been merged into the sticky thread it's now in.
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thank you thank you for this thread!
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