Power plugs

[Nakaleen 2]

I went shopping for things for my trip (just over a week away) I need a power plug adapter for my Batt. charger as well as my phone charger.

 

So I went to a travel shop that sells adapters, asking one for Thailand. The shop staff showed me two, one with two round pins ( o o ) while the other had two thing pins ( | | )

 

I asked her which one I will need and she said they use both and I should buy both. This smells like a rip off So I'll ask here before buying.

 

Which one would I most likely need for Pattaya (as well as Bangkok)?

[THE_DRUID 21]

The round ones. You can buy them in Pattaya anyway.i've seen them in 'Made in Thailand' indoor market on 2nd road.If your going to The Philippines it's the Flat ones.

[Cennn3 0]

The flat ones are better than the round ones, the round ones are harder to get in the socket although they do fit. Just buy one not both of them.

[wacmedia 277]

Hi,

 

I have a charger that I got from a BG. They, like us usually have some spare chargers hanging around. If not buy one in the market as other postie said.(round pins)

[kikc69 45]

All of the plugs in the hotel room I stayed in used the flat plugs. Do not remember seeing any using the round ones.

[aussiechic 209]

bought ours from the Big C supermarket here cost around $2 au each bought both.

[Tahoe_Bill 0]

Generally both will work although I did stay in one hotel that was flat only.

If for some reason the plug doesn’t work in the socket you can always go to Big C and buy a 79 baht surge protector which will accommodate both flat and round plugs. With the less than perfect power grid in LOS a surge protector may not be a bad investment anyway.

Cheers!

Bill

[Gary 4,118]

Be aware of the 240 volts more that the plug. Most plugs here will take the two round plugs as well as the flat ones. Most of the phone chargers as well as the computer power blocks use the flat pins. Most modern chargers accept 100 to 240 volts. You shouldn't have to buy anything if you have two flat pins.

[spacebass 0]

Most plug sockets in Thailand take 2 pin round (Euro) or 2 pin flat (U.S.) plugs. In these sockets sometimes the flat pins wont fit (because some of the two pin blades have one bigger than the other, which some older sockets do not, if you have the choice buy the one that has same size pins) and sometimes the round one won't fit, (because it might not be exactly the same size, usually bending the pins out a bit fixes that).

 

I think the euro plugs make a better mechanical fit.

 

Most adaptors come with a plug in mains lead terminated with a 'figure 8' plug on the other end, as suggested above easy to have two of those with a round and a flat on them but a U.S. plug with same size pins will do most all the time.

[Samsonite 181]

Everywhere I've stayed, so far, the outlets would accept both the French round pin style and the U.S. flat blade style plugs.

[Eneukman 1]

I have a couple of surge protectors, essential if you're going to be using your lap top and I can use either round or flat.

 

Alan

[wallyc 0]

I bought an adapter that takes a US 3-prong or several other configurations. On the wall side it has retractable flat 2 blades, round 2 pins or a large set of 3 blades. Since it had the flat blades and the round pins I knew it would work in Thailand and I could use my USA stuff in either case. But, the hotel rooms have a lack of outlets and I need to plug-in more than one item. I'm in Chiang Mai now and following my friend Samsonite's suggestion I went a local mall and found a 3-outlet power strip (w/surge protection) that takes many prong/blade configurations. It has a 3-prong plug (the ground wire US type - don't know what else to call it). Plugged it into my other adapter and turned the 1 wall outlet into a 3 plug outlet that I can use damn near anything made on earth ..... by the way, the wall outlet in my hotel room takes either a 2-prong flat blade plug or a 2-prong round plug. The flat blade type does not work ( no power ) and the round blade type does ....

 

The cost was 265 baht - I figured $8 .... for the power strip and I think was $19 for the wall plug and it may be from Belkin - I forgot. The power strip came with a 2-prong flat blade and ready for a 3-prong US plug adapter.

 

Hope this helps,

wallyc

[Nakaleen 2]

Thank you for all the replies.

 

Just to make sure I got both round and thin adapters as there was a special on at my local Disk Smith store.

 

I only need them for my Phone charger, batt charger (for my cameras) plus my 20gb mp3 player (which I am mainly using to store my photos from my cameras). All my chargers can handle 110-240v so hopefully I am covered.