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Apr
3
2009
A friend is loaning me a voltage converter but how do I know if I also need an adapter to go with it?
Dumb question but I have never traveled overseas but am going to Israel in 4 weeks.
Answer #2
Israel uses a 220 volt 50hz system with the three pin socket, same as the british system. Also many electrical appliances have a little switch with which you can change the voltage, ie 110/220v. Battery operated devises will usually operate on dual voltage since they ‘step down’ the voltage to the battery voltage anyway. Tony
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Answer #1
This site gives a fair bit of information about the electricity supply in Israel: http://www.megavolt.co.il/Tips_and_info/visitor.html
Depending on what you need to power there, you may not even need the voltage converter (hopefully, what you actually have is a 220V-110V transformer) as most mobile phone and laptop computer power supplies are designed to operate in a 100-240V range.
It is likely you’ll need an adapter to plug the transformer into the Israeli sockets, but the output of your transformer will almost certainly be presented as a US standard socket.
Be careful about equipment that uses the mains frequency, it’s 18% lower at 50Hz, so motor driven appliances will run slower and are liable to overheat. Clocks which use the mains frequency as a timer will run slow.
This is all of course assuming you’re going there from USA. If you’re from a European country, all you’ll need is an adapter as pretty much all of Europe runs at 220-240V.