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Post by Texas on Jan 29, 2012 19:32:16 GMT
In the Houston orientation, the lady recommended that we bring some of these adapters to Saudi. They are plentiful here in the US and not that expensive. Your thoughts?
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Post by omeriano on Jan 29, 2012 21:57:04 GMT
In my opinion. You don't really ned them. here In saudi you will have the two electrical systems . So no worries and pack something else. You can by things easily here I'm saudi. Welcome here and safe trip.
Cheeeeeers
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Post by Uman on Jan 30, 2012 2:34:28 GMT
Yeah, and what about Australian plugs and appliances as well?
We operate on 240 vlt 3 pronged plug \ /
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Post by GroveWanderer on Jan 30, 2012 7:12:20 GMT
If you are going to live in an Aramco compound, all the outlets in the houses (apart from the 220V one for the washer/dryer) are US standard outlets. If you will be living on a non-Aramco compound (working in Riyadh, Jeddah, Yanbu etc) with non-US outlets then you might need adapters for your US-style plugs.
If you are buying electrical goods locally, they will normally have either a European or a UK-style plug on them for which you would need an adapter to use them in an Aramco house - but more importantly, most electrical goods you will find are 220 - 240V so would require a transformer as well as an adapter.
You can find some 110V appliances but they are few and far between - and becoming more so. Some devices are multi-voltage, especially audio/video equipment and computers but most other items are not.
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Post by David_and_Nita on Jan 30, 2012 15:10:13 GMT
?Maybe you mean American to European adapter?
Our plug sockets are standard 110V but the appliances etc sold here are 220 V and have all sorts of weird connections.
They sell very good US to (various and sundry types of plugs LOL) adapters at the commissary but it took me some time to locate a transformer (110 to 220) to convert the 110V power that we do have to the 220V power that we need to run the stuff here. THAT is a good thing to buy, pack, and bring.
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