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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.)
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Date: 2006-05-31 10:57 am (UTC)Just buy an adapter set, it all comes together, and then you're set!
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Date: 2006-06-01 10:55 pm (UTC)your laptop pooter will also auto-switch between 110-240v. so you should be able to keep us updated on any absinthe experiences in nigh-real-time...
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Date: 2006-06-02 11:51 am (UTC)On the plus side, I'm told that there exist internet cafes where, for a reasonable fee, I can update the LJ and drag pictures off the camera and onto the 2Gig stick o' memory. So, while there will not be any laptopping of my own, there may be some updating. We shall have to see.
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Date: 2006-06-02 02:11 pm (UTC)I'm not taking anything I can't bear to have stolen.
so take the WINDOWS laptop... *grin*