[DeTomaso] NPC: Travel to Scotland
Charles McCall
charlesmccall at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 02:41:45 EDT 2008
The only possible exception is if his cell phone charger is designed for
110/220 operation. If so, like my laptop charger, then he's in luck and only
needs a $1 adapter, to convert the flat prongs into a triangular pattern for
Scotland. If you can't tell, or if the charger doesn't explicitly say
110/220 volt (mine actually says "wide range input 110-240v" then I'd buy
one in Europe. It'll be relatively cheap, or at least cheaper than a good
quality transformer.
I have a good transformer for my US stereo, which I didn't want to replace,
and the transformer weighs about 17 tons and was rather expensive. Cheaper
Chinese transformers burned out in short time, and a VCR was sacrificed to
the Smoke Gods due to a $30 Radio Shack transformer.
Another option if he'll be renting a car - buy a car 12v charger...
Charles McCall
1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
"Raising Pantera Awareness across Europe"
http://members.aol.com/PanteraGT5S1985/
-----Mensaje original-----
De: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] En
nombre de MikeLDrew at aol.com
Enviado el: jueves, 12 de junio de 2008 1:29
Para: MGREEN008 at triad.rr.com; detomaso at realbig.com
Asunto: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: Travel to Scotland
In a message dated 6/11/08 16 24 38, MikeLDrew at aol.com writes:
> Right. Europeans use a 220v system, which will quickly smoke a US cell
> phone charger. He'll simply have to buy a charger for his phone once he
> gets
> there.
>
P.S. Although you can buy a 220-to-110 converter, my painful experience
has
been that although they work fine for very crude devices (like hair dryers),
sophisticated electronic devices don't tolorate them well at all. Having
let
the smoke out of more than one Ni-Cad battery charger, even using a
converter, I've since learned to just suck it up and use host-nation
chargers for that
sort of thing.
Mike
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