I tried my hair dryer I bought in the U.S. in Europe, but it wasn't a good idea ;) The other way it will be only slow, and dries the hair after ages...
I think, power adapters work with both voltage, and mobile devices will be charged only slower with 110V. Best, Samat On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Peter Southwood < [email protected]> wrote: > Which 220V devices do you know that will be damaged by connecting via a > laptop power cable to 110V? > I don't know of any. > Cheers, > P > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wikimania-l [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of DaB. > Sent: Tuesday, 18 July 2017 9:24 PM > To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) > Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Socket type in the Sheraton Hotel > > Hello. > Am 18.07.2017 um 19:06 schrieb Gabriel Thullen: > > Could you collect a lot of power cables with US sockets, so that all > > of us foreigners can use them instead of complicated adapter plugs ? > > I’m not sure if this would be a good idea, because the US/Canada use a > 110V-system while Europe uses 230V. > While many notebooks can stomach both, lots of other devices can not. So > it could be fatal to just switch the powercord of a device. > > Sincerely, > DaB. > > > -- > Benutzerseite: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] > PGP: 0x7CD1E35FD2A3A158 (pka funktioniert) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >
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