<p>Iam a noob when it comes to traveling abroad. How do I get all my electronics to work in Turkey? I want to take my laptop, cell phone, camera. I am specifically talking about the power to charge these things. Thanks!</p>
<p>I’m not sure about the specific voltage in Turkey…I studied abroad in the Netherlands two years ago. Your electronics need one of two things.</p>
<p>Some electronics are designed to work on multiple voltage systems and thus all you need is an adapter to plug it into that country’s outlets. My camera functioned on batteries, so I’m not sure about that, but your laptop is probably one of them – I had an old Dell E1505 and it worked perfectly fine on Europes 220 volts system. I just needed to attach an adapter to my computer’s plug and plug it in. Same thing with my phone. The adapter cost me like $15, but you can get smaller, cheaper ones in bags. They are less expensive over there.</p>
<p>Some appliances, however (particularly things that generate heat) are not meant to operate on the higher or lower voltage of another country. Here in the U.S. we use 110 volts; the European system is 220 volts. For those items, you need a converter, which converts the power coming from the wall into the types of power that your appliances can use. I’m not exactly sure how it works, but it applied to my hair dryer and my flat iron. In that case, though, I went to the electronics store where I bought my adapter and asked one of the workers what would work for it. He chuckled a bit and told me I’d fry my hair unless I bought one of the converters. They cost like $60-80, and it was much cheaper for me to buy an inexpensive hair dryer and flat iron from the department store there, so that’s what I did. And at the end of the semester, I donated it to the program staff in case there was another girl with thick frizzy hair who needed their services.</p>