What to do when taking a laptop abroad?
I'm traveling to Germany to study abroad and I'm concerned about powering my laptop. I don't know whether I need to purchase a converter or if just a plug adapter would work. If you have any suggestions/advice I'd appreciate it. Thanks!
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1 :
Yeah, your going to need a converter. You should be able to get on at your computer's manufacturer's website. If not just do a search for laptop power converter.
2 :
you might contact the place you are staying at, and let them know you will need to use a converter to power up you US laptop, they probably can assist. They may have one for you to use. I was stationed in Germany while in the air force and we had them . most of use bought them from someone who was leaving and returning to the states.
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What you should do is find a replacement power cable that works in Germany. Contact the laptop's manufacturer to find out how to obtain one (they'll probably sell you one). You do not want to use a power converter because those often churn out very "dirty" power. Especially the cheap ones. What you would be doing is taking one frequency of AC power and converting it to a different AC frequency, then you'd be converting that to DC. You should just skip the "middle man" (the American(?) AC power) and go directly from German AC to DC. If you cannot get a European power cord from the manufacturer, then invest in a UPS (uninterpretable power supply). You can then plug your laptop into that and then plug that into a power converter. The UPS will clean the power provided from the converter and give you good old American AC power out the other end. It's not an ideal solution, but it's far less likely to mess up your laptop
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