REMSTAR M series w humidifier - voltage converter required?

[happywife]

I have received conflicting information. Machine specs indicate 110-240v power brick, so it appears no voltage converter required in Spain, just a plug adaptor. My husband claims on his last trip to Spain the machine wouldn't work without the converter, he bought one there, machine worked fine. I called local supplier to discuss, and was told he was lucky that machine didn't fry. Any comments on this? Am thinking we better take the converter, but don't want it to blow up while away!

[Krelvin]

hard to tell, perhaps they were having power issues at the first place. also depends on what the converter actually was.

110-240v is what is says.

I normally would take a decent power strip with me, plug that into the adapter and plug the device(s) into the power strip. Gives some protection for noise and it's own circuit breaker.

[palerider]

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[archangle]

There are at least two types of humidifiers for the M series. Some run off the DC from the power brick. Some run off of AC power and have a sort of "Y" cable adapter that runs a separate AC power cable from the power brick to the humidifier.

I would expect the DC version to run off of anything in the specs for the power brick. For the DC version, a single cable runs from the brick to the humidifier and there's a "pigtail" that powers the blower unit.

I was going to say the AC version might be different, but I just went and looked at my AC M series humidifier and it says 110-220 as well, so I guess the AC humidifier is voltage bilingual as well. If you have the AC version, check the label on the bottom of the humidifier for the voltage range. (Take the water tank out first so you don't spill water into the machine. )

[ericob]

I wouldn't completely trust the "machine specs" (what's the source?). Rather, if there's a "brick" between the residential power and the machine, find the label on the brick and see what it says. I have a different model, but the label on my reads "100-240 V." (Of course, they could get info on the label on the device wrong, but that seems unlikely.)