rak

I have lived and travelled expensively in SE Asia and Australia and
Europe for many years, carrying laptops, cameras, phones, etc. and
never had a voltage problem with portable equipment such as you
mention.

The actual voltage may not be what it says anyway, and typically is
often lower, especially in countries with power shortages where they
often lower the voltage rather than cut the power. I think they are
not supposed to go more than about 10% down (or up) on voltage and
less than that on frequency but sometimes they do. I have also run
mainframe computers in some SE Asia countries and they are more fussy,
so we had power conditioning equipment, but laptops and other items
with power adaptors are generally very forgiving.

On Jun 18, 12:12 am, "Bobbie Weeks (Ms)" <bwe...@emergency.qld.gov.au>
wrote:
> I live in Australia and will be travelling to Vietnam, Cambodia,
> Thailand and Malaysia later this year. I've checked out getting a
> plug converter, so I can plug my Australia appliances (like phone
> charger, laptop, hairdryer, etc) in while I'm away. I've found out
> the plug types that I need to get but I'm wondering if there would be
> an issue with the slight (well, I assume slight) variation in voltage
> (all countries have the same frequency). I've listed out below what
> I've found but can anyone advise me if the different voltages will
> make a difference or, worse yet, damage my things as it seems that
> plug converters don't change the voltage:
>
> Australia, Plug Type I, 240V
> Cambodia, Plug Type A & E, 230V
> Malaysia, Plug Type G, 240V
> Thailand, Plug Type A & E, 220V
> Vietnam, Plug Type A & C & G, 220V
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.