Power Adapters: How to Destroy Your American Electrical Appliances in Germany

german-electrical-outlet-power-adapter — “Now that ain’t look right at all…” — Image Credit: Alex Harden (https://www.flickr.com/photos/aharden/) — Subject to CC 2.0 License.

PART II: Success.

As you probably know, European outlets kick out a mean 220 volts of electricity. American appliances, like my now-deceased electric razor, were only designed to handle 110 volts. I was told by several people my appliances would be ruined if I tried them in Europe, so as soon as I arrived, I did my very best to brick my razor. Nothing bad happened. Then I tried my razor for a longer period of time while in Munich. Like, long enough for a full, manly kind of shave.

This video is the result:

And this is the first video, when my razor was still alive:

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We have several Appliances that work on 110 – 240 V and figured that we should take a 6 plug Extension Cord with us when we went out our last trip to Germany, since we only have one Converter plug. So I (mistakenly) thought we could just plug the 6 plug extension cord into the Converter Plug and then all our chargers etc into the extension cord. Unfortunately we packed a Surge Protector instead of a plain cord. Need I tell you what happened?

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Annegret says:

July 9, 2013 at 6:06 am

We have several Appliances that work on 110 – 240 V and figured that we should take a 6 plug Extension Cord with us when we went out our last trip to Germany, since we only have one Converter plug. So I (mistakenly) thought we could just plug the 6 plug extension cord into the Converter Plug and then all our chargers etc into the extension cord. Unfortunately we packed a Surge Protector instead of a plain cord. Need I tell you what happened?

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