So I'm moving to Europe come the new year. I was hoping someone on here would know more about this matter than me. I have a laptop I like and a nice desktop I'm hoping to take with me. Now this might be a stupid question, but is there something I should be aware of if I was just planning on using a wall converter and a surge protector to power my electronic goods: phone, laptop, desktop, etc.
Thanks for your help.
Half of europe is using 220V power, while there are those countries, that use 110, Also, there are 2 different types of wall sockets, but the adapters are cheap as chips, so that should be no issue. Just make sure, that both your PSU and your laptop charger work on both 110 and 220V.
If you're traveling, your sir... need a tiny rig with a seasonic PSU. Really anything with a 120/220 switch, which should be any high end PSU.
That being said I'm partial to the EVGA hadron MITX case or the NCase line.
anything you build yourself that has a decent PSU will be able to travel without a hitch.
IIRC Power supplies can swap between 120V and 220V (US and EU power) pretty easily, now anything beyond the PSU in a desktop and I'm more than willing say I don't know anything, but a good tiny desktop and a good quality PSU should do wonders for you
It's not so much for travel as much as relocation-- a few years for school. Thanks. I'll look into my rig again for the details.
Thank you. I didn't know that some countries used 110. A few years back I lived in England for a few years and had an adapter that worked fine enough. I was going to use that to power the surge protector.
Would that information be easy to find online or do I need to look for the manuals that came with my PSU and laptop?
It should be written on your laptop's power brick and on the PSU (and would also be in the manual). Most modern ones will work with anything between 110 and 240 but it's best to be sure.
There aren't any European countries that use 110V as far as I know. Searching for a map of voltage by country shows that all of Europe uses the same voltage.
Could be entirely my mistake...
As others have mentioned, the vast majority of PSUs nowadays can take anything from 110-240V. Just check your laptop and PSU to make sure. As for adapters and whatnot, you could also just buy power cables in europe (the PSU cable/plug is standardized anyway and many laptop power bricks use a "mickey mouse" cable/plug, which is also standardized). If it's just those 2 devices you might as well IMO, the cables should be cheap and you don't have to carry around an adapter with your laptop all the time or worry about a crappy adapter potentially not being gorunded correctly, etc.