IEC "kettle lead" Wiring. please help!

[Deleted member 329]

hello!

i am in the middle of modifying an old flight case to hold my new laptop.
i bought a standard female IEC socket ( like the one on your power supply ) and ive fitted it to my flight case. all is looking good. now comes the hard bit ( for me anyway)

i want to connect a standard surge protected socket multiplier (which will be living in the case full time ) which currently has a standard 3 pin wall socket on it at the moment.
now what i was planning to do was wire the adapter up to the female IEC socket, so when plugged in to a standard kettle lead through the female ICE socket on the outside of my case it will power the socket multiplier.
Simple you might think?
the thing i want to make sure is the wiring. There are 3 pins on the IEC socket... what wire goes where? Ground, + , - .

Wiring is not really my strong point! haha

thanks for any advise you can offer.

 

[Deleted member 329]

earth is usually the top one, brown wire, the other two don't really matter as its AC so the + and - swap all the time

cool

so earth at the top and the other two should be ok where ever?

do you know of any websites with good wiring diagrams on them?

 

[Deleted member 329]

Its an IEC standard which means you gotta pay to get the specification... so thats why its hard to find online.

If you wanna play it safe get a sharp knife or a hammer and smash open one of those moulded kettle lead ends that you dont need anymore... its guaranteed to give you results.

aaa right thats why i cant find it.. cheers for the good info there. i was thinking of doing that. but i dont want to ruin a perfectly good kettle lead! there a bit rare round here for me!

 

[Deleted member 329]

Ok... i went and opened up a kettle lead i had with a useless French plugs on the end.

Using this pic for oreientation...

The left is blue/neutral, the centre is the green/earth and the right is brown/live.

So flip that to get the wiring for you socket... hope it helps.

Edit : wouldent you know i found a pic that shows it

hey thanks for that! i opened one up.... its the same as a normal plug