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Will a 240V battery charger work when plugged into 110V will it charge at all?
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∙ 15y ago
You don't give the most important piece of information: what is the appliance that the battery charger is used for?
That information is needed because the right answer to this question will depend on the power drawn by the battery charger. If it is a very small one designed for use in Europe for a camcorder or a mobile phone, then it should work OK if its label or rating plate says it can be used on a wide range of voltages, such as from 110 Volts to 240 Volts.
Even if it does not say that on the label, because it is an old-fashioned "transformer-based" type which will only work on 230 Volts AC, you might be able to use a small type of "international travel" voltage transformer to convert the supply voltage up from 120 volts to 230 Volts AC. These can sometimes be bought at airport shops or usually they are available from electronics parts stores - Maplin Electronics in the UK, for instance.
But that small type of "international travel" voltage transformer is not a cheap item to buy and it may actually cost you less to buy - in USA, Canada or wherever you are going to - the right type of battery charger that would be suitable for the battery in your appliance.
If the battery charger is a very big and heavy one, taking a lot of power, you would have to buy a much heavier and more expensive kind, an "auto-transformer", to convert the supply voltage up from 120 Volts to 230 Volts AC at the much higher current. But, again, they are very expensive and it may actually cost less to buy the right type of battery charger for whatever the appliance is that you wish to use in USA, Canada or wherever you are going to. (The small "international travel" type of voltage transformer would not handle it, it would probably just blow its internal fuse or might even explode and die!)
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 12y agoIf the plug configuration would allow it yes you could. The bottom line is that the recharger would not work on the lower voltage.
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∙ 7y agoThis is a hard thing to do as the pin configuration are different between the two voltages. This is the reason different plug configurations were brought into being.
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