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thematrixiam
Joined: 31 Oct 2007
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 Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:31 am Post subject: Northamerican laptop |
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hey, a girl in my building has brought her laptop over to korea from the US.
Just curious what she needs, if anything, so she doesn't fry her laptop.
Will a simple convertor work, or will she have to get one that actually changes the voltage - the toaster sized ones - for it?
The way she has it set up right now is just with a small adapter that changes the progs, but not the step up/step down, that she plugged a power cord in and then her laptop.
out of curiosity, what is the deferinces between voltages in north america and Korea.? |
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Toon Army
Joined: 12 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:39 am Post subject: |
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the majority of laptops these days are dual voltage 110-240v.......I brought my sony laptop from the states with no problems.
Korea is 220v |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:49 am Post subject: Re: Northamerican laptop |
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| thematrixiam wrote: |
hey, a girl in my building has brought her laptop over to korea from the US.
Just curious what she needs, if anything, so she doesn't fry her laptop.
Will a simple convertor work, or will she have to get one that actually changes the voltage - the toaster sized ones - for it?
The way she has it set up right now is just with a small adapter that changes the progs, but not the step up/step down, that she plugged a power cord in and then her laptop.
out of curiosity, what is the deferinces between voltages in north america and Korea.? |
Read the label on the brick. Chances are that is says. "Input 110-240VAC".
If that is the case then she needs a 300 won "plug converter/adapter".
IT might be easier (since she probably has a 3 pronged plug) to get a new power cord (wall to brick) at the nearest computer / electronic store or the computer department of the nearest E-mart / homePlus /lotte mart. This would cost about 3000-5000 won.
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