Product Details
- Brand: Trisonic
Product Description
Operate your 110V/120V electric appliances or electronic devices overseas in countries using 220V/240V
Simple to operate: plug converter into foreign wall outlet and plug your appliance into the converter's female receptacle, and use your appliance as you would at home
Step down from 220V/240V AC to 110V/120V AC
Input: 220V/240V AC round pin plug
Output: 110V/120V AC flat blade
Power: for electronic devices/electric applicances of up to 1600W such as hair dryers, irons, hair setters, electric hair curlers, coffee makers, heaters, toasters, coffee cup heaters, clothing steamers, and much more! (do not use with appliances exceeding 1600W)
CAUTION
DO NOT USE 1600W CONVERTER TO OPERATE TRAVEL APPLIANCES EXCEEDING 1600 WATTS, FOR HAIR DRYERS, HAIR SETTERS, COFFEE CUP HEATERS, IRONS, CONTACT, LENS STERILIZERS, CLOTHING STEAMERS.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
91 of 96 people found the following review helpful.
dont be fooled
By abdimalik nasir
I am an electrician working overseas and when I seen this item I assumed it would be bigger.I bought a 500 watt converter that weighs about 7 pound the same time I bought this one which weighs about 9 ounces.I wonder how can this this have a wattage output of up to 1600 watts when it so small.Maybe the wire gauge size is extremly small.After testing this with a meter I seen I could only get an output of around 160 watts continuously not 1600 watts.Someone must have added a zero by mistake.DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE ADVERTISEMENT!!
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful.Does not work for more than 3 minutes
By M. Tamayo Ortega
I connected a cordless phone to this device on my trip to Europe and it exploded!I'm still waiting for a communication from the customer service from the seller (it is not Amazon directly).The product documentation clearly states that is is suitable for up to 13 amperes, but the cordles phone only consumes 0.2.I don't know if my cordless phone is ruined, but I would say that from the smell it has now :(
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Works just fine for many years
By I. J. Ondrasik
I do own this convertor about five years and it works perfectly even with 1200 watts hair dryer. One thing I noticed was that in some outlets in Europe two prong plug was too short and I had to add an extension plug to make it work (which was included in the box with this adapter). I do recommend this item. ABOUT THIS CONVERTER:This converter is known as a selenium rectifier. This type of converter is light in weight and much cheaper than the transformer, and it is rated at much higher wattage, typically 1,600 watts - enough for an electric iron, blow dryer, or curling or straightening iron. The use of this kind of converter, however, is limited to heat-producing devices. Such a converter will damage sensitive electronic equipment such as computers, radios and CD players. The reason for this is that this type of converter does not truly convert the voltage. Instead, it turns the 220 volts on and off fifty times each second. The average voltage that comes out is 110 volts, but it consists of intermittent spikes of 220 volts. These spikes will damage a computer or other sensitive equipment, but not less sophisticated items such as heat-producing devices. Limit use of this type of converter strictly to irons, blow dryers, hotplates, et cetera. 60 HERTZ VERSUS 50 HERTZWhile it is easy to convert voltage, it is virtually impossible to convert frequency. Fortunately, the latter is of little importance. The difference in frequency between American and European current is of no concern. You will not damage any American item by running it on its proper voltage, but at 50 Hertz instead of 60 Hertz.There is one caveat: electric clocks and clock radios will not keep proper time. This is because most electric clocks count cycles to keep time, advancing the second hand one second every time they count 60 cycles. Since at 50 cycles per second it takes 1.2 seconds to reach a count of 60, any American electric clock, be it electronic (digital) or motor driven (analog), will run slow by exactly four hours per day. You will not harm your clock, but it will keep terrible time.For this reason, it is suggested you obtain an inexpensive travel alarm clock that either operates exclusively on batteries or is spring driven and wound manually. Or you can always use your cellphone's alarm-clock feature (just make sure your cellphone is fully charged and set to the correct British time). Not to worry about your computer's clock, however: It keeps time via an internal quartz crystal and not by cycle counting, so it should keep perfect time in Europe.
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