I am traveling to China and Japan on business next month and want to take a various array of electricals that need charging, Laptop, pocket PC, phone etc Is the supply the same voltage/freq in China/Japan as here in the UK or does it need stepping?? Is there a standard physical plug adapter I need to get?
Have you checked your laptop PSU?, many are switchmode and work on either voltage - if not you need an auto-transformer, these are freely available for this exact reason.
OK thanks nigel, I checked the supply but it isn't switchable, it says on it though that the input is 100-240V~2.0A but everything else I want to run is fixed voltage. I found this -
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I know it is for the USA and is 120V~ not 100V~ but is this the type of thing I will need for Japan? but a different voltage, is that a reasonable price or expensive?
OK thanks nigel, I checked the supply but it isn't switchable, it says on it though that the input is 100-240V~2.0A but everything else I want to run is fixed voltage.
I didn't say 'switchable' I said switchmode - your power supply is switchmode and the spec you've just typed says it works on any voltage between 100V and 240V. So your laptop is fine.
Have you checked the others for what they say?, phone chargers are often multivoltage as well.
I checked my pda, it isn't switchable. but I can charge this from the USB port an the laptop. The phone also isn't switchable. But I suppose for my purposes it would be cheaper to buy a japanese charger for the same phone. There isn't anything else I need to power except perhaps a battery charger whic again I could just buy one from out there. so all I should need is a simple plug shape adaptor.