Shaver socket for laptop?

[shocking_eg]

don't forget US is on 60Hz too

Don't honestly know if that would make too much difference short term, but long term?

true !

some stuff works fine on 50Hz but some electrical components don't like it at all :S

trust the americans to be different LOL

i still cant get over how the hell they can survive with only 120v !! there lighting circuits must be wired in 2.5mm ? lol

 

[SPARTYKUS]

I think they're 20 Watts, shaver sockets, if memory serves. Very low current. Therefore safe

 

[Strima]

By the time he's screwed around and paid for the work he could have picked up a universal laptop power supply for under £30.

 

[Duncan Bennett]

The USA is square pins though which look bigger than the round euro pins ?
?

Yes, they are square aren't they - odd looking flat things I recall! But can't visiting yanks use their razors in our hotels?

 

[shocking_eg]

wouldn't it also be better just to buy a new power pack for his laptop?

cost about £20 - £30

Will do yourself out of a job though.

hit it on the nail - just say you will supply a new power supply instead ! lol

 

[Guitarist]

He may be expecting the job done for a few dollars which is why he doesn't want to spend money on a new PSU.

 

[Duncan Bennett]

The more I think about it the odder it gets. Why wouldn't he just get an adaptor for a couple of quid, like Telectrix said?? I'll sus it out when I see him tomorrow but, saying that, the way things are just now, I'd rather put in a safe installation and collect the cash than play Robin Hood and sell him an adaptor. The customer is always right and all that. The vagaries of the trade I suppose. But here's another one for you guys to mull; I got a call from a lad this morning who wants me to give him a price for fitting a flagpole outside his front door. Not an electric flagpole, or something motorised, or with flashing lights and a chorus of God Save the Queen. Just a flagpole. I do actually advertise as an Electrician, but it seems I'm attracting the wrong people, lol!!

 

[micknew]

I think they're 20 Watts, shaver sockets, if memory serves. Very low current. Therefore safe

My laptop is 19V, current 3.2A (60.8W) so if there's is has the same spec a shaver socket would not be up to it anyway.

 

[Duncan Bennett]

He may be expecting the job done for a few dollars which is why he doesn't want to spend money on a new PSU.

He's in for a shock then, Guitarist - (which he might get if he spends much more time surfing the web from the bath )

 

[Duncan Bennett]

My laptop is 19V, current 3.2A (60.8W) so if there's is has the same spec a shaver socket would not be up to it anyway.

Opps, wonder if I could get him up to £3.50 for that old adaptor I got in the van! It's a fact though, Micknew, and I think Spartykus is right to quote 20w for the shaver.

 

[Duncan Bennett]

Just checked the specs for an atypical 230/115v shaver and the output is indeed 20Va as Spartykus suggested. Also, looking at Laptops, they tend to run from around 45w upwards, so that's not really an option for him. Also, the shaver unit I'm looking at says it is not continuously rated and therefore not suitable as a permanent charging outlet. The stand alone 200Va transformer Shocking_eg suggested therefore looks about the best solution - except for the fact that I lose the job :-(

Thanks for all the input, much appreciated.

 

[jaresquire]

He says he needs the 120v? I haven't met him yet, but I have this picture of him sitting in his bath writing profound thesis for the Lancet

For some reason some of the most electrically challenged people I've met have been well educated medical types.
The good ones at least know to stick to their field.

 

[Duncan Bennett]

Turns out it isn't a laptop. Now bare with me, the way he explained it, it's a computerised, high frequency thingamadoo that bombards your body with vibrations which kill 60% of naughty we gremlins in your blood/body. Apparently, different body bugs die at different wavelengths, so the on board computer scans your body and then zaps them - wave at a time. I asked if it also made a cuppa - he seemed not to recognise the words. It comes with its own adaptor/transformer with American pins. Input 120v ac 12W. Output 9v dc, 500mA.

The numbers probably work, and he's been using it on the bathroom shaver he already has installed for a number of months. But I'm not really happy about installing what is, despite the label, an american style socket in his sitting room. Besides, if he can purchase an HF Thingymadoo, then who knows what else he can plug in later.

So, I have to get the transformer for him. But, on the good side, we got on well, and he's considering building an outhouse in his garden which he'd like me to price for a supply and fitting out. Bad side, the FB is an old insulated Wylex with rewirable fuses :-(