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May. 30th, 2006 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickConfession time: I never understood electricity and magnetism and volts and amps and the right hand rule and so forth. As far as I'm aware, electricity comes from magical demons hidden inside the walls, but I am ignorant of their ways.
I have a digital camera that takes rechargeable batteries. The rechargeable battery thing plugs into the magical wall demons to recharge the batteries with their essence. The rechargeable battery thing has the standard (ungrounded) two-vertical-prong plug like for Merkin outlets. Here in Merkinland, our magical wall demons are 110V or 120V @ 60Hz.
In Amsterdam, they have round plugs with round prongs. The magical wall demons throughout The Netherlands are 230V @ 50Hz. Their magical wall demons are a different sort, apparently. I guess that's part of being a foreign country.
Helpfully, the back of the rechargeable battery thing says Input: 110V-240V; AC 50/60 Hz. This means that the only thing I need to buy to make the rechargeable battery thing work in Amsterdam is a Merkin-to-Netherlandish plug adapter? (I hate getting electrics wrong. Ozone is not a good smell.)
I have a digital camera that takes rechargeable batteries. The rechargeable battery thing plugs into the magical wall demons to recharge the batteries with their essence. The rechargeable battery thing has the standard (ungrounded) two-vertical-prong plug like for Merkin outlets. Here in Merkinland, our magical wall demons are 110V or 120V @ 60Hz.
In Amsterdam, they have round plugs with round prongs. The magical wall demons throughout The Netherlands are 230V @ 50Hz. Their magical wall demons are a different sort, apparently. I guess that's part of being a foreign country.
Helpfully, the back of the rechargeable battery thing says Input: 110V-240V; AC 50/60 Hz. This means that the only thing I need to buy to make the rechargeable battery thing work in Amsterdam is a Merkin-to-Netherlandish plug adapter? (I hate getting electrics wrong. Ozone is not a good smell.)
