Gen 6 Lyman

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Just to clarify the adapter / transformer / converter confusion. Devices are not always 110v or 220v/240v

Depending on the country mains power can be 110v, 120v, 220v, 230v or 240v (or a couple of odd ones), many power adapters are designed to work across this entire range and there is a percentage of variance tolerance for these voltages too.

Depending on the power-adapter provided with a device it may only be suited for one of these, but more often than not is designed to work across the range of voltages. e.g.

Standard US mains are 120v @ 60hz.
Standard Australian mains are 230v @ 50hz.

Check the powder-adapter for a brand name laptop or anything that's sold internationally and you'll likely fine the input rating is something like 100v-240v @ 50/60hz. This will work in either location with the right wall plug. You just need a plug-adapter to make the metal pins the right shape ($10 or whatever) for the socket, you're not doing anything with the electricity.

You only need an appropriate power-converter device if the power-adapter input rating is specific to one zone and you're using it in another. e.g. if a power-adapters input rating was specifically 110v/60hz for the US and you wanted to used it in Australia. You would need more than a plug-adapter to just reshape the pins, getting just a plug-adapter and plugging the 110v/60hz specific power-adapter into an Australian socket would burn it out immediately.

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Depending on the country mains power can be 110v, 120v, 220v, 230v or 240v (or a couple of odd ones), many power adapters are designed to work across this entire range and there is a percentage of variance tolerance for these voltages too.

On the subject of variance.

"In the UK, Australia and New Zealand the nominal supply voltage is 230v -6% +10% to accommodate the fact that most supplies are in fact still 240V."

Via Wiki.