travel adapters

[dreamy]

recently purchased Cpap phillips respironisc from USA, as i live in Australia the plug does not fit here, silly question i know but im a bit daft in this sort of thing. Do i need to buy a travel adapter ? or is there something else that i need to purchase. Appreciate some feed back. Thanks.Karen

[Bert_Mathews]

recently purchased Cpap phillips respironisc from USA, as i live in Australia the plug does not fit here, silly question i know but im a bit daft in this sort of thing. Do i need to buy a travel adapter ? or is there something else that i need to purchase. Appreciate some feed back. Thanks.Karen

I think getting a TRAVEL ADAPTER would be the cheapest -but- you can check with a Phillips dealer down-under and get a comparable power cord.

[BasementDwellingGeek]

Check the tag on the power supply. Mine says 100-240V~ 50/60Hz. Yours should as well, if so, you should be good to go with only an adapter.

[dtsm]

Travel adapters:

http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Interna ... 78&sr=8-13
http://www.amazon.com/All-One-Travel-Po ... 278&sr=8-1

Belkin makes a nice small travel size surge protector if you decide to bring one: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_ ... elkin+mini

220v surge protector http://www.walkabouttravelgear.com/surge.htm

[xenablue]

Just a word of advice on using travel, or any other adapters. It's not advisable to use them long-term per an electrical/electronic expert I spoke with when I first moved from Australia to the U.S.

I brought my sewing machine with me and purchased a step-down/step-up converter, which was the best way to go (for my machine), however I was warned it wouldn't be a good idea for the long-term - and it wasn't - my machine fried within a year.

Ok, so a sewing machine isn't an XPAP machine, but I still wouldn't want to be using any kind of converter on a regular basis, particularly just a travel converter.

My advice is to contact the company and see if they have a plug suitable for Australian 240, or see if there's an agent in Australia - they will probably have them on hand.

I do this on a regular basis - buy cameras, computer equipment for my son in Australia, and always need to track down the charging gear etc., in Aussie format.

Don't risk your machine with a converter unless it's for a very short time.

Cheers,
xena

[billbolton]

I brought my sewing machine with me and purchased a step-down/step-up converter, which was the best way to go (for my machine), however I was warned it wouldn't be a good idea for the long-term - and it wasn't - my machine fried within a year.

Sewing machines (mostly) use AC main voltage motors, and an AC motor designed for 50Hz mains frequency operation (as used in Oz) will definitely suffer over time from being operated at 60Hz mains frequency (as used in the US of A).

Ok, so a sewing machine isn't an XPAP machine, but I still wouldn't want to be using any kind of converter on a regular basis, particularly just a travel converter.

Contemporary xPAP machines use DC motors, with the conversion from AC mains voltage frequency done in a Switched Mode Power Supply that is specifically designed to handle a wide range of mains voltages and frequencies. There is absolutely no problem in running them identifitely using a simple plug adapter.

Cheers,

Bill