How do you handle electricity when you travel oversea?

[Svnla]

So I am planning to travel to Asia (Southeast region..Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia) within a month and planning to bring camera/laptop/electronic goodies.

How do you keep your laptop/electronic gadgets juice up? I believe their electricity is different than the US.

What do you have to buy? TIA.

 

[bobdole369]

My laptop and other assorted gear is all autoswitching. Just in case, I bought a $20 electricity "travel kit" from Target that converts 220/50 to 110/60. I didn't use it.

As noted above all my gear was autoswitching I only needed the adaptor to convert from the "blades" style to the "holes" style plug in a London hotel. Was included with the travel kit.

In Thailand the yacht I worked on was 220v/50hz and had both blades and holes.

In Thailand the resort I was put up in had both 220 and 110 in the wall - horiz blades for 220 - vertical blades for 110.

 

[erub]

I lived in Asia for 3 months and travelled fairly extensively over the last year and a half. All of the stuff I brought (laptop, cell phones, camera charger, iPod) was dual voltage, with the exception of my OralB toothbrush charger. I blew up two of those using unreliable voltage converters. For standard stuff you just need the plug adapters (I call them 'tips'). More of those is better as I only had 2 so was constantly swapping stuff around to get everything charged They are pretty cheap though.

 

[Colt45]

Most expensive electronics (cell phone, laptop, etc) are worldpower, so you only need a physical adaptor ($1). cheapshit like electric razors probably arent, so you'll need an adaptor... or just buy a cheap one there.

 

[TheInternet1980]

Isn't it generally wise practice to not handle electricity at all?

 

[LS21]

check the label on your wall warts, dig cam charger, and other adapter type devices. most should handle a wide range of voltage potential (100-240). most of the world is 220v is most devices should be safe.

to be safe, you can get a voltage converter and if you go to frys you can pick one up for 5$ (vs 30$ "kits" at best buy). additionally, you can pick up a plug converter that goes from 2-round prong to a multi-compatible end. 1$

these 2 items should take care of you everywhere

here is the converter (foreground) and the piggy-back in action
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[Svnla]

LS1 - we don't have Frys stores around, can we order the voltage converter and plug converter online at Frys.com?

Thanks to all that replied.

 

[LS21]

yes, but you can probably grab it at walmart, radio shack, or monoprice.com

 

[ivan2]

You might want to check your adapter first, to my knowledge almost all of my power adapters were world powered that can be used in 100-240V 50-60Hz.

The ONLY exception in my case is the Nintendo DS adapter, that is 100V only. I have the US version so you might want to pay attention to that.

I didn't went out to get a travel converter or anything, they all came in accepting up to 240v when I bought them...

 

[Fritzo]

Everytime I handle electricity my pubes start to smoke.