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Old 12.06.2007, 20:17
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Re: [importing] electrical equipment - ins & outs

Sorry to whinge on endlessly, but I am still confused.

A UK plug is wired so that, when you have the plug all undone and the cord grip is facing you at the bottom, neutral (blue) goes left, earth (green/yellow) goes in the middle, and live (brown) goes to the right. This much I know! I even found a little aide-memoir - BRown Bottom Right, BLue Bottom Left. It also has this wiring diagram on one of my UK plugs.

Is a Swiss 3-pin plug basically wired in exactly the same way? Posts on here seem to indicate that it may be the opposite?

I spent ages searching on the internet for a definitive answer, but whereas plenty of UK sites and plugs say it is important to wire a plug correctly, I see no such warnings on Swiss sites or even on Swiss plugs. I only found one site that gave me the wiring for a Swiss plug but it had the UK plug wrong, so I didn't trust it. This makes me wonder whether it really matters which way round neutral and live go on Swiss 3-pin plugs, since you think they would warn people if it was dangerous to get it wrong. People at work seemed to think it didn't matter.

However, I don't want to kill myself. But I don't really want to have an electrician charge me for changing my plugs when I could do it myself if only I knew the answer to this single question.

I feel I am probably overcomplicating something very easy!

kfc.
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