topic Re: Voltage converter for battery charger in Camera Accessories

Voltage converter for battery charger

whemmy — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 13:19:37 GMT

I am travelling to Italy from the US and was wondering if anyone knows if I need to bring a voltage converter to charge my batteries? Or is a plug adaptor all that is needed? Thanks!

Re: Voltage converter

jrhoffman75 — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 21:34:31 GMT

Most modern electrical devices are dual voltage. Look at the label and see if it says 240 volts.

Re: Voltage converter for battery charger

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 22:29:27 GMT

Canon warns in the manual against using a voltage converter on their chargers. It will cause the charger to burn up. Someone borrowed my camera (T2i) and used a voltage converter in India. Charger was fried. I believe that most Canon chargers are dual voltage as was stated, and should work without a voltage converter, just need a plug adaptor.

Re: Voltage converter for battery charger

wq9nsc — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 22:03:02 GMT

As John stated, the charger will have a label indicating if it is designed to work around the world on 100-240 VAC 50 or 60 hertz. Everything I have purchased from Canon has this capability but check the label on your charger.

NEVER use a typical "travel converter" with electronic products unless it is specifically labeled for that use. Most travel converters are designed to work with hair dryers and other products with heaters and/or a universal motor. Electronic items like your power supply expect a fairly pure sine wave input while the simple travel converters provide a very dirty spiky output that will damage electronic items.

Electronic items require a step down transformer instead of a simple converter circuit and those get very heavy at anything over a 25 to 50 watt rating so if your travel converter is rated for several hundred to over 1,000 watts and it is lighter than a Canon EF 800 f5.6, DON'T plug anything electronic in to it 😁

Label from Canon LC-E19 charger below showing typical labeling for modern multi-voltage device:

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