Hello everybody!
I'm from Europe (Italy), and I have a bit of issues on converting an electrical plug from italian to American.
The plug serve to bring power to a small switching converter (12V, 3A max).
The point is that I have read a lot about this tipe of operation, the gauge of the original wire is fine, but the Italian plug only has 2 poles (line and neutral), while the american plugs I need to use have 3 poles ( 1 for the white, 1 fro the black and one for the green). The green I have to skip it (even the power supply has only 2 input terminal), but my problem is about the possibility of swapping the line and neutral on the american plug.
Everywhere I found a lot of warning about respecting the connections (line on the white, neutral on the black), but... what if I switch them? is that really an issue with the american power supply? With the original cable the direction of isertion is totally arbitrary and invertable, is that the same even for the american 3 pole plug (apart from the fuct they can't be plugged reversed, but from the wiring point of view the connection could be swapped)?
Thanks a lot for the aptience of reading this post and thanks even more for the help!
I'm from Europe (Italy), and I have a bit of issues on converting an electrical plug from italian to American.
The plug serve to bring power to a small switching converter (12V, 3A max).
The point is that I have read a lot about this tipe of operation, the gauge of the original wire is fine, but the Italian plug only has 2 poles (line and neutral), while the american plugs I need to use have 3 poles ( 1 for the white, 1 fro the black and one for the green). The green I have to skip it (even the power supply has only 2 input terminal), but my problem is about the possibility of swapping the line and neutral on the american plug.
Everywhere I found a lot of warning about respecting the connections (line on the white, neutral on the black), but... what if I switch them? is that really an issue with the american power supply? With the original cable the direction of isertion is totally arbitrary and invertable, is that the same even for the american 3 pole plug (apart from the fuct they can't be plugged reversed, but from the wiring point of view the connection could be swapped)?
Thanks a lot for the aptience of reading this post and thanks even more for the help!
European to North American plug
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