PLUG ADAPTERS FOR CHILE
Wondering if anybody can help: I'm going to Chile on Friday and am borrowing a 15" Titanium Powerbook from my office. I can't get a definitive answer from Applecare about the World Travel converter kit, with the wall outlet plug adapters. Will it work in Chile? The box and the manual list Europe and Australia and Hong Kong and all kinds of places, but there's no mention of South America at all. Different countries down there have different voltage. Chile is 220.
I've talked to Tech Support, I've talked to Customer Service. All they say is "I don't know." I even went to an Apple store today to look at the kit and they reufsed to open a sealed box and they had no display models. And again, they just shrugged and said, "Oh, it doesn't say South America? I don't know."
I checked International Electrical Supply websites and they say that Chile is 200 v and you need a WA-10 and WA-12 grounded plug adapter and it shows the pictures, and a #1 and #6 ungrounded. But the Apple manual doesn't list numbers or letters. Just illustrations, which feels to risky to me to go by. Then Radio Shack says for Chile you need their converter called "B" and plugs "2" and "5." (Which they didn't have).
So it seems like everybody calls this stuff something else.
Since the Apple power adapter will convert the voltage to 220, all I need are the plug adapters, right? The Apple power thing has a 3-prong plug. I guess I have to purchase the products from somewhere else, it seems, as I'm nervous about purchasing from Apple and finding out the plug adapters don't work. And I can't find anybody who knows anything about them.
Anybody out there with experience on this stuff? Since it isn't my laptop, I'm even more concerned that I don't screw this up.
Thanks in advance for your help.
I've talked to Tech Support, I've talked to Customer Service. All they say is "I don't know." I even went to an Apple store today to look at the kit and they reufsed to open a sealed box and they had no display models. And again, they just shrugged and said, "Oh, it doesn't say South America? I don't know."
I checked International Electrical Supply websites and they say that Chile is 200 v and you need a WA-10 and WA-12 grounded plug adapter and it shows the pictures, and a #1 and #6 ungrounded. But the Apple manual doesn't list numbers or letters. Just illustrations, which feels to risky to me to go by. Then Radio Shack says for Chile you need their converter called "B" and plugs "2" and "5." (Which they didn't have).
So it seems like everybody calls this stuff something else.
Since the Apple power adapter will convert the voltage to 220, all I need are the plug adapters, right? The Apple power thing has a 3-prong plug. I guess I have to purchase the products from somewhere else, it seems, as I'm nervous about purchasing from Apple and finding out the plug adapters don't work. And I can't find anybody who knows anything about them.
Anybody out there with experience on this stuff? Since it isn't my laptop, I'm even more concerned that I don't screw this up.
Thanks in advance for your help.
