I am a UK citizen and wish to charge my camera and run my laptop in the USA. Is it as straightforward as buying a plug adapter? Or are the voltages different?
The UK is 240v.
US voltage is 110-120Vac. You will need a step up transformer (120-240Vac) to use charge your camera but for your laptop, it will work fine without adapter as most laptop are auto configured to work with both voltages(120-240V). Check the input rating on your laptop if it is 120-240v, then you can use it in US without any extra power converter.
I hope this helps
110V with 60Hz (in US and Canada)
110V with 50Hz (in Japan)
If you brought the laptop after 1999, most laptops have automatic converters. (universal) In other words, you don’t need anything. You just plug it in and the power supply recognizes the voltage difference and changes the capacitor to a step up or down.
Read what it says behind the power supply. If it reads something similar to 110 – 240V, 50-60Hz, then you don’t need a converter. I have a HP laptop brought in Cannon video camera, which also works anywhere in the world. Just read the manual or ask a department store customer service in UK for help.
110V 60Hz.
Your UK aplliances won’t work. Hopefully your camera charger will be universal. Read the label on it.
Edit:
I just dug out my laptop charger, and it says on it (in very small print) “Input: 100-240V 50-60Hz”. If yours has similar, you are sorted.
your laptop transformer (the black box on the lead)may have a 240/110 switch. then all you need is an adapter for the plug. otherwise its a new transformer.
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Whizkido
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:58 am
1US voltage is 110-120Vac. You will need a step up transformer (120-240Vac) to use charge your camera but for your laptop, it will work fine without adapter as most laptop are auto configured to work with both voltages(120-240V). Check the input rating on your laptop if it is 120-240v, then you can use it in US without any extra power converter.
I hope this helps
MSS
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:33 am
2110V with 60Hz (in US and Canada)
110V with 50Hz (in Japan)
If you brought the laptop after 1999, most laptops have automatic converters. (universal) In other words, you don’t need anything. You just plug it in and the power supply recognizes the voltage difference and changes the capacitor to a step up or down.
Read what it says behind the power supply. If it reads something similar to 110 – 240V, 50-60Hz, then you don’t need a converter. I have a HP laptop brought in Cannon video camera, which also works anywhere in the world. Just read the manual or ask a department store customer service in UK for help.
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November 23rd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
3110V 60Hz.
Your UK aplliances won’t work. Hopefully your camera charger will be universal. Read the label on it.
Edit:
I just dug out my laptop charger, and it says on it (in very small print) “Input: 100-240V 50-60Hz”. If yours has similar, you are sorted.
rauls ghost
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:21 pm
4your laptop transformer (the black box on the lead)may have a 240/110 switch. then all you need is an adapter for the plug. otherwise its a new transformer.
WP Robot Wordpress Autoposter
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:01 pm
5Actually, the U.K. is nominally 230v, with a +/- 10v variance.
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