I've just bought a Briel espresso machine by mail order from France. It has a standard European two pin plug with receptacle for male grounding pin. It runs on 230V and load is 1600 watts. The only adapter I can find online is Maplin's euro convertor but that shows a max load of 600 watts. Can I just cut off the plug and fit a standard UK plug onto the cable?
euro convertor
Jan 22, 2007
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But, as the appliance will not have the Noddy Guide to wiring a plug in the UK, as required by the nanny state, I hope you're competent to do so!
Yes - all an adaptor would do is to reassign the connections to the correct UK pins, so why not just cut out the middle man.
UK voltage is now nominally 230V +10% -6% so it should be fine as long as you can sort a plug out.
Thanks all for your help
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