What German converter/adapter/transformer will I need for these and what website do I get them from?
-cell phone (for alarm) -PSP -30 gig IPOD video -laptop -digital camera -electric toothbrush -hair dryer -flat iron I am moving to Germany for a year and thought figuring out what to buy would be easy, but once I started looking, I got very confused. Please be very specific, I have no idea what I'm doing. Thanks for the help!
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For all these you will need the plug adapter. If the equipment is working on both 110(US) and 220 volt you do not need a converter. For those which only work on 110 volt you would either need a converter ( very expensive).Or buy a replacement in Germany. You can also buy a German hairdryer for example that will be cheaper than buying a voltage converter. You can buy all this in Germany any store selling electronics has these example Media Markt same most department stores. Important do not use any if you are not sure it is designed to work on 220 volt you will blow up the thing and it is dangerous for you too.
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It depends on where you come from. Our mains are 230V at 50Hz. If you're from the U.S. you will need a 110V to 230V step-up transformer.
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If you have a Radio Shack or a Best Buy near you, go there with your product list and tell them you need a universal adapter that you can power all of those American products from German power sources. They mostly only need to know which of all of your devices draws the most current to make sure they specify a device large enough. But, you SHOULD NOT take your hair dryer and flat iron with you, but buy them in Germany. They are the real killers on the power draw. They would require VERY LARGE and VERY EXPENSIVE power adapters. It's really quite a simple problem to solve. You will be able to easily buy the adapters for everything else in Germany, as well as here in the U.S
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