Where can I find an american 4 way plug adapter?

frobisher

Not a travel adapter (otherwise this thread woul be in travel!) but a 4 way for accepting 4 American plugs for my new stuff from from the states (I obviously didn't think this through all the way!). It could have either an American or European plug on the end. I reeaally need one asap and am at a complete loss where to find one. Any ideas?

Ruu_Old

I'm not sure you can get a power strip with 4 sockets but you can get 4 single adapters and use it that way. Peats or Maplin should have them.

netwhizkid

Just buy some ordinary replacement plugs and cut off the American plug and put on the replacement Irish ones, very easy any man worth his salt should at least be able to wire a plug. Also remember Irish voltage is 240V and american is 110 so unless your gadgets are dual voltage you will need a Transformer in which case it would be better to leave the US two-pin plugs on.

Miss Fluff

DID Electrical

Ruu_Old

netwhizkid wrote:

Just buy some ordinary replacement plugs and cut off the American plug and put on the replacement Irish ones, very easy any man worth his salt should at least be able to wire a plug. Also remember Irish voltage is 240V and american is 110 so unless your gadgets are dual voltage you will need a Transformer in which case it would be better to leave the US two-pin plugs on.

Eh that doesn't work, do you want the OP to end up in casualty?:p

frobisher

netwhizkid wrote:

Just buy some ordinary replacement plugs and cut off the American plug and put on the replacement Irish ones, very easy any man worth his salt should at least be able to wire a plug. Also remember Irish voltage is 240V and american is 110 so unless your gadgets are dual voltage you will need a Transformer in which case it would be better to leave the US two-pin plugs on.

I'd ignore this post if it wasn't for the "any man worth his salt can wire a plug bit"!! I'm guessing that maybe, just maybe you're Ireland's leadind expert on electricity BUT I'm guessing that you also didn't read my post properly!

Ruu: I'm hoping I won't have to buy an individual adapter for each unit as that would be nearly €200 alone! That said, I may have no choice.

Irish Halo

I think what OP wants to do is plug 4 american devices into an american 4 way plug and then plug the 4 way into the one transformer and then into an irish wall socket so only needing one transformer for 4 devices.

This is actually a similar trick used extensively by UK/Irish people working at CERN because while Switzerland has the same voltage etc it had a different plug to the rest of mainland Europe and it can be a bugger finding the three pin to swiss two pin adaptors :mad:

The only place I can suggest are the online versions of:
Radio Shack

Walmart
Kmart

There is also Target and a few others. I don't think you will find this in a bricks and morter store in Ireland TBH.

netwhizkid

frobisher wrote:

I'd ignore this post if it wasn't for the "any man worth his salt can wire a plug bit"!! I'm guessing that maybe, just maybe you're Ireland's leadind expert on electricity BUT I'm guessing that you also didn't read my post properly!

Ruu: I'm hoping I won't have to buy an individual adapter for each unit as that would be nearly €200 alone! That said, I may have no choice.

You could just get one of them builders yellow transformers, they are heavy and look ugly but they might help solve your problems if it is a heavy duty transformer your after.

[EDIT]Having read the above post after posting this, my solution to your problem would be, get a builders Yellow transformer and cut off all the US plugs and connect them into an Irish 4 way bar voila.[EDIT]

Celticfire

E-Bay.ie . Do a search for "Power Strip" worldwide.

Example


Do you have 220v-110v transformer, ?

Paddy_Irishman

What wattage are the applicances you are trying to use?

A 50-60w power transformer from US to Irish is about 40 to 50 euro man.

Interceptor

Yeah I know its probably not much help but CT Electric in Galway stock a huge range of 110 transformers with US plug strips to suit. I'm sure an electrical wholesaler near you will be able to help.

'cptr

Max_Damage

Paddy_Irishman wrote:

A 50-60w power transformer from US to Irish is about 40 to 50 euro man.

It's not that expensive;

http://cgi.ebay.ie/EUROPEAN-TRAVEL-POWER-CONVERTER-TRANSFORMER-220-110V_W0QQitemZ300028758212QQihZ020QQcategoryZ50588QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Paddy_Irishman

Max_Damage wrote:

It's not that expensive;

http://cgi.ebay.ie/EUROPEAN-TRAVEL-POWER-CONVERTER-TRANSFORMER-220-110V_W0QQitemZ300028758212QQihZ020QQcategoryZ50588QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

In ireland it is. Ebay is all well and good but he may not use it and my not want to wait for it.

Creamy Goodness

erm netwhizkid not everyone is full of money to go around buying a builders transformer, some of the ****e that pops out of your mouth is ridiculous.

"cutting off the plugs and sticking irish ones on the devices" wave bye bye to OP like lolz

Rovi

Cremo wrote:

erm netwhizkid not everyone is full of money to go around buying a builders transformer, some of the ****e that pops out of your mouth is ridiculous.

"cutting off the plugs and sticking irish ones on the devices" wave bye bye to OP like lolz

Well up in post #3, netwhizkid did state: "unless your gadgets are dual voltage".
Plenty of stuff is dual/multi-voltage, particularly things with external transformers, but many things with internal transformers are too. Take a look at the power supply of many computers, for example. Nipping off the US plug and sticking on an Irish one would be fine in those cases.

If these devices are single voltage (110v) and the OP wants to run all four off a single external transformer, all they need is four US-Irish adaptors to plug them into an Irish gang strip, and an Irish-US adaptor to plug the gang strip into the transformer.
All should be available from your local friendly electrical/hardware shop, and shouldn't cost much more than €30-40, excluding the transformer.

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