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Voltage converter for battery charger

whemmy
Apprentice

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!

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jrhoffman75
Legend
Legend

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

John Hoffman
Conway, NH

R6 Mark II, M200, Many lenses, Pixma PRO-100, Pixma TR8620a, Lr Classic

Anonymous
Not applicable

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.

wq9nsc
Elite
Elite

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:

RodgerLC-E19 charger.jpg

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