Foreign electrical standards

[hairsoup]

I sell a lot of electrical items on one of my sites and sometimes i get orders from america and 9/10 times the order has to be refunded.

america is the only country i can say for sure that has a different type of plug voltage to here, although i assume there are many others. Does anybody know where I can find information on what countries standards arent compatible with ours so that I can flash a warning to the user?

[confused]

Here ya go

http://kropla.com/electric2.htm

[Cornish Steve]

When I lived in Britain, most electrical equipment was sold without a plug; you had to add one yourself. In the US, everthing comes with a plug attached.

As a world traveller, I find it a pain how different the voltage and outlets are around the world. I fried my cellphone in Greece, for example. Often, I can't get equipment to work because a socket will require an earthing prong. There are at least four socket shapes, and my universal adapter is forever breaking.

If someone has a universal solution, I'd love to hear about it.

[hairsoup]

thanks for that, very useful.

i may consider cross selling universal adapters to these foreign customers, can you recomend a good one goldctrsteve?

[Cornish Steve]

thanks for that, very useful.

i may consider cross selling universal adapters to these foreign customers, can you recomend a good one goldctrsteve?
Nope. I'm still looking for a good one myself - and I've been searching for years. A good adaptor should make allowances for different voltages as well as different shapes. This would have saved my cellphone recharger in Greece.

[Astaroth]

I have ordered many items from main land Europe in the past and all have given a 2 pin to UK 3 pin plug adaptor free of charge.

[Urban Space]

You won't need to worry about power soon anyway, we're running out of oil and stuff! There'll be nothing to run your gadgets on!

Liam