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How do you handle electricity when you travel oversea?

Svnla

Svnla

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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.
 
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.

 
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.

 
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.
 
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
plugs.jpg
 
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.
 
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...
 
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