Purple Shirt wrote:
I know the pain. with transformers. I used to have a electric razor from Germany and got me a cheap plastic converter for the end in Germany. You might want to look around in eletronic shops in Germany. But I bet you will only find German->other foreign nation converters.
Ask your friend in the states to stake out a Us->German converter in the states like at RadioShack or sth.
I wish there was a standard out there for this sort of thing. I am planning to move to Australia and they got another setup. It's bugging me because else I would buy lots of tech items before I move there but the transformers all would need converters. Pain in the ass.
mk
It's not only the different plug. US uses as far as I know 110/120 Volts. Germany uses 230 Volts. Connecting an US transformer to the german network will give you 10V and a nice perfume (pronounce FUME) like smell. Probably a burned down house as well. Are you sure about the 5 Volts Jim? I thought they run on a higher voltage. I don't have any 5V transformers handy. Just some 9V AC (modem), 12V (probably also modem) and 14V (old laptop mains) Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\