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idkb
15-04-2009, 07:24
Hi All,

I am luck enough to be heading to Northern California next week for a holiday. It suddenly struck me that I should check whether my battery charger would work on the US power supply (obviously with the appropriate plug adapter). I know a lot of chargers these days are auto sensing so that they work on the different voltages (eg, laptops).

Any ideas/experiences?

TIA

Iain

david1701
15-04-2009, 10:42
pretty sure the canon one does

andrewc
15-04-2009, 10:56
should be dual voltage but you'll need a travel adaptor.

purpleclouds
15-04-2009, 11:00
Should do! If you look on the bottom it'll tell you the input voltages it can take :)

nictry
15-04-2009, 11:14
I have a Nikon charger and works fine (been many times) just plug into the US adaptor and all is well :thumbs:

Harvey_nikon
15-04-2009, 11:20
was going to ask this myself as I am heading over to california & neveda for my honeymoon in 3 weeks! :)

idkb
15-04-2009, 11:41
Excellent - thanks for the help guys. That is a weight off my mind :thumbs:

George
15-04-2009, 17:44
Absolutely no problem, in fact I'm in Canada just now and what I do is use one of the other leads that came with my kit and plugs in to the charger's 2 pin socket so I don't even need an adaptor, and I swap it round to charge the various bits of kit I bring here.
George

bsmotorsport
15-04-2009, 18:30
Most chargers these days are based around the switched mode power supply design and as such work from voltages from 100 through to 240 and frequencies of 50hz to 60hz, they'll even work from DC also. Great little pieces of kit really when you think about it. My Nikon charger worked in the US as did my Dell laptop, no worries.
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