[ngxte]

Hi all

I guess i'm posting this as I knwo many of you are from USA.

I am about to be posted to NY, after only a year in HK. Therefore I am reluctant to sell all my appliances so soon and would rather take them with me. The only question is of power source, which i know comes down to 110 from 220 with a slightly different cycle as well (approximate numbers!)...

Now, for a shaver this might be ok to convert the power, but what about a bigger appliance like a TV? Are there any risks? or are the converters on the market these days quite reliable.

I found an example on the web http://www.dvdoverseas.com/store/ind...atalog1_0.html

Any advice, warnings, endorsements would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers!

[KnowItAll]

Most electronic equipment can be handled by upmarket convertors which will switch the frequency and voltage.

Having said that, might be easier to get the internal power supplies changed when you move to the US... the power unit in stuff like DVD players is just converting the AC down to a low voltage DC supply in most cases. (Which often makes the frequency issue irrelevant ... unless you have some weird equipment that is using the frequency as a clock ..)

In short .. yeah, voltage convertors will usually work.

[kristof]

Quite a few appliances now support from 110V to 220V without any need to use any equipment, take a look

[Sleuth]

Something to keep in mind when coming to the US is that US DVD players might not play your non-US DVDs. It would have been waaay to easy to standardize these things so that you wouldn't have to worry about where the player and DVD were made.

[cosmokat]

Yeh, you need to make sure your DVD player is region free if you want to use it in the US (region coding of DVDs are different than in Asia). Also, with your TV, you also need to make sure it is NTSC compatible, otherwise it won't work in the US either (HK is on PAL).