Curling Iron in Italy -- how to handle electrical
Aug 16th 2003, 8:18 am
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Re: Curling Iron in Italy -- how to handle electrical
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 20:39:45 GMT, bill bates
<[email protected]> wrote:
>We'regoingto Rome next month. My wife has an 85 watt curling iron.
>Do I need a converter or will an adapter plug work?
Check the data on the iron. See if it says something like 110v to
220v. Many curling irons (and other grooming items) these days
are rated for European voltage and automatically use that voltage
with only a plug adaptor required. My wife's curling iron said
110v-240v and we went nuts trying to find the switch in it. We
went into Boots in London to find her an iron that would work on
240 and were nicely told by a clerk that her iron knew the
difference.
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* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
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<[email protected]> wrote:
>We'regoingto Rome next month. My wife has an 85 watt curling iron.
>Do I need a converter or will an adapter plug work?
Check the data on the iron. See if it says something like 110v to
220v. Many curling irons (and other grooming items) these days
are rated for European voltage and automatically use that voltage
with only a plug adaptor required. My wife's curling iron said
110v-240v and we went nuts trying to find the switch in it. We
went into Boots in London to find her an iron that would work on
240 and were nicely told by a clerk that her iron knew the
difference.
************* DAVE HATUNEN ([email protected]) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
Aug 16th 2003, 8:39 am
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Curling Iron in Italy -- how to handle electrical
We'regoingto Rome next month. My wife has an 85 watt curling iron.
Do I need a converter or will an adapter plug work?
thanks-
Bill in NJ
Do I need a converter or will an adapter plug work?
thanks-
Bill in NJ
Aug 16th 2003, 8:44 am
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Re: Curling Iron in Italy -- how to handle electrical
bill bates <[email protected]> wrote in
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> We'regoingto Rome next month. My wife has an 85 watt curling iron.
> Do I need a converter or will an adapter plug work?
>
> thanks-
>
> Bill in NJ
>
I think you need to be worried about the voltage here, not the watts...
news:[email protected]:
> We'regoingto Rome next month. My wife has an 85 watt curling iron.
> Do I need a converter or will an adapter plug work?
>
> thanks-
>
> Bill in NJ
>
I think you need to be worried about the voltage here, not the watts...
Aug 16th 2003, 9:01 am
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Re: Curling Iron in Italy -- how to handle electrical
bill bates wrote:
> We'regoingto Rome next month. My wife has an 85 watt curling iron.
> Do I need a converter or will an adapter plug work?
>
> thanks-
>
> Bill in NJ
Bill,
A 50 watt travel transformer weighs about a pound. You'll need a 100
watt transformer. Make sure it can be used on 50 Hz. A "converter" will
probably burn up the curler.
See my page http://www.enjoy-europe.com/hte/chap11/electric.htm for more
on electricity. Also, http://www.enjoy-europe.com/hte/chap06/packing.htm
for a suggested packing list.
John Bermont
> We'regoingto Rome next month. My wife has an 85 watt curling iron.
> Do I need a converter or will an adapter plug work?
>
> thanks-
>
> Bill in NJ
Bill,
A 50 watt travel transformer weighs about a pound. You'll need a 100
watt transformer. Make sure it can be used on 50 Hz. A "converter" will
probably burn up the curler.
See my page http://www.enjoy-europe.com/hte/chap11/electric.htm for more
on electricity. Also, http://www.enjoy-europe.com/hte/chap06/packing.htm
for a suggested packing list.
John Bermont
Aug 16th 2003, 10:34 am
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Re: Curling Iron in Italy -- how to handle electrical
bill bates wrote:
>
> We're goingto Rome next month. My wife has an 85 watt curling iron.
> Do I need a converter or will an adapter plug work?
>
You might consider purchasing one when you arrive, rather than carrying one
from home.
>
> We're goingto Rome next month. My wife has an 85 watt curling iron.
> Do I need a converter or will an adapter plug work?
>
You might consider purchasing one when you arrive, rather than carrying one
from home.
Aug 16th 2003, 2:16 pm
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Re: Curling Iron in Italy -- how to handle electrical
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 02:38:19 GMT, jcoulter
<[email protected]> wrote:
>bill bates <[email protected]> wrote in
>news:[email protected]:
>> We'regoingto Rome next month. My wife has an 85 watt curling iron.
>> Do I need a converter or will an adapter plug work?
>>
>> thanks-
>>
>> Bill in NJ
>>
>you will need both a converter
Not necessarily. It depends on the curling iron.
>and an adaptor plug, she would do well to
>get a butane model, as suggested buy one there as the convertor et al
>becomes bulky.
************* DAVE HATUNEN ([email protected]) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
<[email protected]> wrote:
>bill bates <[email protected]> wrote in
>news:[email protected]:
>> We'regoingto Rome next month. My wife has an 85 watt curling iron.
>> Do I need a converter or will an adapter plug work?
>>
>> thanks-
>>
>> Bill in NJ
>>
>you will need both a converter
Not necessarily. It depends on the curling iron.
>and an adaptor plug, she would do well to
>get a butane model, as suggested buy one there as the convertor et al
>becomes bulky.
************* DAVE HATUNEN ([email protected]) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
Aug 16th 2003, 2:38 pm
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Re: Curling Iron in Italy -- how to handle electrical
bill bates <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> We'regoingto Rome next month. My wife has an 85 watt curling iron.
> Do I need a converter or will an adapter plug work?
>
> thanks-
>
> Bill in NJ
>
you will need both a converter and an adaptor plug, she would do well to
get a butane model, as suggested buy one there as the convertor et al
becomes bulky.
news:[email protected]:
> We'regoingto Rome next month. My wife has an 85 watt curling iron.
> Do I need a converter or will an adapter plug work?
>
> thanks-
>
> Bill in NJ
>
you will need both a converter and an adaptor plug, she would do well to
get a butane model, as suggested buy one there as the convertor et al
becomes bulky.
Aug 16th 2003, 3:28 pm
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Re: Curling Iron in Italy -- how to handle electrical
Hatunen wrote:
>
> On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 20:39:45 GMT, bill bates
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >We'regoingto Rome next month. My wife has an 85 watt curling iron.
> >Do I need a converter or will an adapter plug work?
>
> Check the data on the iron. See if it says something like 110v to
> 220v. Many curling irons (and other grooming items) these days
> are rated for European voltage and automatically use that voltage
> with only a plug adaptor required. My wife's curling iron said
> 110v-240v and we went nuts trying to find the switch in it. We
> went into Boots in London to find her an iron that would work on
> 240 and were nicely told by a clerk that her iron knew the
> difference.
But a reasonable mistake - my first "dual current" hair dryer DID have a
switch that must be turned to the correct voltage before use. They keep
making machines smarter and smarter - how I miss the days when neither
my VCR nor my camera were more intelligent than I!
>
> ************* DAVE HATUNEN ([email protected]) *************
> * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
> * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
>
> On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 20:39:45 GMT, bill bates
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >We'regoingto Rome next month. My wife has an 85 watt curling iron.
> >Do I need a converter or will an adapter plug work?
>
> Check the data on the iron. See if it says something like 110v to
> 220v. Many curling irons (and other grooming items) these days
> are rated for European voltage and automatically use that voltage
> with only a plug adaptor required. My wife's curling iron said
> 110v-240v and we went nuts trying to find the switch in it. We
> went into Boots in London to find her an iron that would work on
> 240 and were nicely told by a clerk that her iron knew the
> difference.
But a reasonable mistake - my first "dual current" hair dryer DID have a
switch that must be turned to the correct voltage before use. They keep
making machines smarter and smarter - how I miss the days when neither
my VCR nor my camera were more intelligent than I!
>
> ************* DAVE HATUNEN ([email protected]) *************
> * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
> * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
