Power Adapters for Croatia
I'm heading on a trip to Amsterdam, Croatia, Slovenia, and Montenegro tomorrow for what should be an awesome vacation. However, my biggest concern before departing is power. I'll be using my Canon SD 800 IS camera while I'm there, which has a funky square battery, so I'll need to be able to recharge it throughout the trip.
I picked up the Belkin F8E449ea Universal AC Travel Adapter on Amazon, pictured below, which appears to cover conversions in the countries I'll be in:
Could anyone confirm whether this will work?
For WiFi, JiWire seems to be a very impressive directory of hot spots. The data looks incomplete (only 46 hot spots in Croatia?), but should be helpful for most large cities.
Assuming that the two pin plug in the picture is indeed the one used in France, Germany, Spain etc. then it will be fine for Croatia. There is however a very similar plug used for shavers which looks the same but is slightly smaller and does not fit European sockets.
Most of Europe outside of the UK, including Croatia, uses the twin round pin plug folded down in your picture. Richard's point about the fractionally smaller shaver plug is valid.
For wireless access I use a G3 PCMCIA card in my laptop and that has worked well everywhere here in Istria. I don't know what coverage is like in the rest of the country.
You will be ok. Make sure you don't charge it during major storm.
1. Posted by: w on May 8, 2007 10:08 PM:
You'll have to tuck away the US plug and extend the European plug before you try to use it in Europe. As long as your camera charger has a transformer that's OK with 240 V/50 Hz, you're good to go. If you were hoping for a transformer, you bought the wrong device.