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Old 12-18-2007, 01:42 AM
kerry kerry is offline
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Originally Posted by Eskimo View Post
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.
German consumer laws require some honesty in merchandising?????

Looks like the Ipod and MacBook chargers will work but that's about it.
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