Comments on: The Best Travel Power Adapters Worth Buying https://toomanyadapters.com/best-travel-adapters/ Tech gear, gadgets, reviews, and advice Sat, 23 Nov 2024 07:14:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Chris Andrews https://toomanyadapters.com/best-travel-adapters/#comment-679769 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=23995#comment-679769 Hi Dave,
Thanks for your advice. I’m mainly travelling in Europe and the UK and I organised my travel adaptors for them some time ago. I forgot that I’d need something for a short stop-over in Japan however, and it’s too late to do any online purchasing now. My best solution is to buy a US adaptor and to saw off the earth pin. However, I do have some concern that the power supply is supposed to be earthed (grounded) and no adaptor solution will resolve this. Although, I expect that it doesn’t really matter.

I am also carrying my smart phone and a 10” tablet, and I have a charger for them that is inherently a type-A (Japan) plug and which comes with an adaptor for Australian power outlets, so I’ll be able to use that. I’ll only be in Japan for a two-day, three-night, stop-over, so I’m sure that I can live without the laptop!

]]> By: Dave Dean https://toomanyadapters.com/best-travel-adapters/#comment-679761 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=23995#comment-679761 In reply to Chris Andrews.

Hi Chris,

Yep, it’s an issue I’ve faced myself, being from NZ originally. I got around it in the end because my laptop charger was a two-piece affair — a cable that plugs into the wall on one end and had a figure-of-8 socket on the other end, and the actual charger itself that connected to the laptop. I bought a US (and in this case, Japanese) style power cable to replace the cable that plugged into the wall, and used that instead of the factory Aus/NZ one.

That said, take a look at the Ceptics GP-12PK Plug Set mentioned above — there’s an image on the Amazon listing that shows a three-prong Aus/NZ plug being plugged into one of the adapters, and I’m pretty sure the inputs are the same for all of the adapters in that kit, including the Type A one. Annoyingly it doesn’t look like they sell that particular adapter separately, only as part of the kit, but at least it may solve your problem both in Japan and wherever else you travel to.

]]> By: Chris Andrews https://toomanyadapters.com/best-travel-adapters/#comment-679701 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=23995#comment-679701 I’m going to Japan shortly and I’ve just realised that Japan has unusual power outlets, and I can’t see a travellers solution. There must be a solution as lots of people travel to Japan.
The issue is that, as I read it, type A power outlets (with no earth pin socket) are very common in Japan. My Australian-plugged laptop charger has an earth pin. Any adaptors that I’ve seen are either US types with three-pin type B that won’t plug into a type A socket, or they are japanese types that only take 2-pin Australian plugs. There are no adaptors that take a 3-pin plug and plug into a 2-pin type A outlet. I believe in Australia, at least, it’s even illegal to sell an adaptor that does this, as it disables the earthing connection. So how are people charging laptops that have a 3-pin plug in Japan when they can only access a type A power outlet with no earth pin socket?

]]> By: Sylvia Adams https://toomanyadapters.com/best-travel-adapters/#comment-675369 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=23995#comment-675369 Nice selection but I really like this model from Ceptics.

https://www.amazon.com/International-Adapter-Ceptics-Travel-Adaptor/dp/B07K1K1F65/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=ceptics&qid=1552430904&s=gateway&sr=8-5

]]> By: Yuriy https://toomanyadapters.com/best-travel-adapters/#comment-668614 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=23995#comment-668614 I want to know what that brown pouch is on the first photo!

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