On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 17:51:39 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 14:42:00 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 3/20/2017 1:14 PM, Micky wrote:

Also, I brought an American extension cord with me, so I would only
need one adapter for the computer, the camera charger, the phone
charger, and the earpiece charger, all of which together don't use
that much iirc, but someone tells me a US extension cord might not be
able to handle 220v. What say ye?


It is the amps, not the volts to be concerned about. Are you talking
voltage adapter? If you plug the adapter into the 220 socket and the
cord into the adapter it is only carrying 110, not 220 as the adapter
reduces
No, he is using a plug adapter to adapt the 120 volt cord to the 240
volt plug so he can plug in his "universal" power supplies and devices
to 240 volts using his regular 120 volt 15 amp plugs.. Fairly common
practice among international travellers from North America.

Good to know. I didn't think it was only me, but it was a better idea
than carrying 4 plug adapters, though I think I have 3 with me.

So far I haven't needed it because I've been charging the phone from
the computer port (and the earpiece from either the second half of a
Y-cable or after the phone is charged. The earpiece doesn't take
long.)

But now** I hooked up my USB speakers, which work really well, and
with the keyboard and the mouse and the charging cable, that's 4, 5 if
I want a flashdrive too, but I only have 3 ports. So I brought a USB
hub and sometimes it work fine and sometimes the mouse stops working
in it Maybe I'll buy another one of those, but it looked like a good
brand, "USB". What could be better than that?

**She also found me a thin-screen monitor which is bigger than what
the acer aspire one has, but it uses up one of the AC outlets. She
has a whole bunch of 3-in1 for AC plugs , but she lost them as soon as
she found them. Most of this is round pin, but the plug for the
monitor had rectangular pins. they were harder to push into the wall.
Maybe that is the solution, if I can find something like that.

She was has a plug adapter for both 110 and 220 volte plugs that she
couldn't push the plug from my computer into the adapter without my
doing it. This might be it! It 's good to have someone to talk this
out with.