Polaris from UK and electric power - Touch Cruise General

I ordered today TC from UK and completely forgot about it until payment has been executed. What kind of electricity do you guys in UK use? Continental Europe uses 220 V / 50 Hz. What kind of power adapter is included with TC? Is it auto switch? In worst case - will I be able to buy a "spare" HTC Touch or TytnII adapter and use it with my TC?
Thanks for your help
R

Jimbo9 said:
I ordered today TC from UK and completely forgot about it until payment has been executed. What kind of electricity do you guys in UK use? Continental Europe uses 220 V / 50 Hz. What kind of power adapter is included with TC? Is it auto switch? In worst case - will I be able to buy a "spare" HTC Touch or TytnII adapter and use it with my TC?
Thanks for your help
R
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UK as the same as continental, also you can charge it from a USB port.
Also, all electronic devices work with multiple voltages, viz - http://www.htc.com/product/03-product_htctouch_cruise.htm
Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC,
50/60Hz
DC output: 5V and 1A
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Don't worry, we use 240v, but due to eu law our supply has to be +/- 10% of 230v inline with the rest of Europe. That is what the "CE" stands for on all electrical goods. with regard to the Hz cycle, to my knowledge, all countries in the world are between 50-60 Hz. The Uk is 50 the US is 60. This is the cycle that the electricity is generated on. It is the most efficient cycle. All you need is an adapter.......I hope this helps.................
Kind Regards,
Will

Thank you both for a quick reply. You saved my day. Also, I completely forgot about possibility of charging via USB. I really don't know where did it come to my mind that UK uses the same power as USA. Thank god I'm saved now. ;-)

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I want to buy a phone from USA and i was wondering if it will be a problem when i`ll charge it in Europe
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I've just bought this tablet from Amazon.de to be shipped to me in the UK - it's likely to come with a Euro style power adapter, so I need to buy a UK equivalent.
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The charger is quite special I think.
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The charger is quite special I think.
Attached is a picture of mine. (Euro.)
5v @ 2A or 15v @ 1.2A (Yes it has two ratings?)
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That's really helpful... thanks very much.
MisterEz said:
That's really helpful... thanks very much.
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I have no idea when it runns what though, or even what pins it applies it to. It may be some odd propriatary system...
Edit:
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More power through a thin wire
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Ok, cheers.
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Received on Monday. Many thanks mate. Notice an immediate improvement in charge time over my old Proporta 2amp bog standard charger.
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Yes there is one left. Still sealed in the box. Email me marcyspark at gmail dot com
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Yes there is one left. Still sealed in the box. Email me marcyspark at gmail dot com
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