Help with changing plug heads?

Question

I brought a lamp from Thailand which has a two prong plug on it. Does anyone know how i can switch the head to the british three prong plug?

Answer 1

check if the voltage it was designed for is 240 v . the cables are just positive and negative presumably , check the lampholder end of the lamp . That's why in Britain we have things colour coded , to reduce potential problems like setting on fire or a big bang .

Answer 2

With power to a lamp, it doesn't matter which wire goes to which prong of the two prong plug. Lamps don't usually have an earth wire, just 2 wires.

Check the voltage and use the correct bulb...110V or 220V depending on your power supply. 50 or 60 cycles make no difference either.

Answer 3

if it is just a light with a conventional bulb it will work if you connect it to the Live (fused) & neutral pins on a 13 amp plug .... do not connect the earth pin (centre)

&  make sure it has the correct voltage bulb fitted.

Answer 4

If you don't want to mess on changing the plugs just buy an electric razor travel adaptor and plug it into that.Buy them from any hardwareshop for about £1.

Answer 5

2 ways

1, buy a plug adapter

2, remove current plug, should leave you with 2 wires. (brown is live, blue is return) wire these into a UK plug as you would normally, there won't be an earth to wire in but this shouldn't be a problem.

Edit: Helpful that they are both the same, hmmm. It's a very simple circuit so it shouldn't matter which way round the wires go.