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Originally Posted by kerry
We're heading to the UK on Saturday. My wife purchased this adapter so that she and my daughter can use their Ipod chargers, hair dryers, curling irons etc in the UK.
http://www.swisstravelproducts.com/power/adapter.html
I don't think it will work. It converts plugs but according to the instructions it does nothing to the voltage as far as I can tell. Inputs/outputs are the same as the standard voltage in the country. Since the UK uses 240 volts, I don't think we should be plugging 110 volt electrical devices into the system. What does everyone else think?
I'm surprised the adapter has no comments or warnings about this. Or, am I missing something? |
On the page you linked, there's a link to the
Swiss Travel Shop.
They state there that
this adapter does not perform any voltage conversion - but only do so on the German language version of the page!
As noted by several others in the thread, this is useful as a means of plugging in devices that are, by design, inherently flexible with respect to operating voltage. As you already suspected, it's not going to make your "110 V only" devices run happily on 220 V mains.