Going to Buddy Dive in July - have a digital camera with a RayOVac battery charger for the NiMH NiCd batteries.

Anyhow - I'm not very techy on these things - so can anyone give me advice on converter to buy - so trip & picture taking goes without a hitch?

42 days (but who's counting) til we return to Paradise ...

If the back of your charger says

110-220 V 50-60Htz It's fine

Thanks for your help!! The back says

"120VAC 60Hz 330 mA"

nothing about actual ranges (-220 & -60)..

What's your interpretation on that?

Again, thanks!

That you will need to plug it into a voltage transformer than can take 127V down to about 110V (not 120, since we run at 50Hz here, and 120/50 makes AC/DC transformers like yours too hot - they tend to burn out over time). Many of the dive shops have plug-in areas, plus some of the resorts will rent you a transformer if you need one.

Jake

Thanks Jake - with info you were kind enough to provide, I will now visit my local "Circuit City" (electronics store). With the specs you provided, they should be able to set me up :-)

Thanks again ... we go to Bonaire in 41 days (for 12 days) - envy you living there!!!!

Dana,

I'm not sure you'll find that sort of transformer (127V to 110V) at any Circuit City or even at Radio Shack. A specialty electronics parts store is a more likely place to find something like that (at least in portable form).

Jake

I would look for a new charger, probably easier to find.

Thank you --

So new charger should say something like "110-220 V 50-60Htz" - that should work then?

Appreciate everyone's help here!!

Yeah, when I looked online for surge protecters and power converters, I found the only place (listed) with the same power as Bonaire was Saudi Arabia (figure that one out.
And yes, if the new charger says something like that you should be OK.
Try to find one with only two prongs on the plug (no grounding pin that is) if you can, makes life easier.
All that said, I sometimes plug my batteries or palm into the fridge outlet if nothing else. I bought a cheap palm (Clie) charger on Ebay that is 110-220- V 50-60 Hz.

Just buy it on the island....that's what we did....but then we never used it....and now I can't find it for the next trip.

I better like the idea of replacing the wallwarts you have with sleeker international ones, Wally. Chicks dig them.
They do not dig "and now I can't find it for the next trip."
And really, how many devices do you have to charge?
I am still avoiding buying car/airline charger for the laptop, as when we have had to kill time in an airport and watch a DVD on the laptop we have found a wall outlet. Though I do need a sexy international charger for it (Vroom,Vroom)

I also can't say if you might need an RF modulator to use the TV at Buddys, last time we were there we needed one to use the RCA yellow video plug. Maybe you can poll the BTers.
A Radio Shack item.

Me and Eva carried a scrabble board (pre PC DVD) and massage oil for the loser to annoint the winner with. Bought the transformer for the cell phone, our only electronic device (cept Dive puters). Never saw a TV while I was there...checked my email once at the cyber cafe and immediately regretted it....so I didn't do that anymore. For music, I sat on the bar stool at Bongos.

No time for tv ... or much else while on island....this semi-ol' pfart is pooped after the day's diving (& night diving also) - only time left is for cleaning salt from everything, keeping the stink-factor on my diving apparel to a minimum & cleaning 0-rings of u/w non-digital camera. Oh, yeah - writing in my dig logs too.

This year I'd like to add reviewing above water pics from digital camera. Hence the recharger/converter issue...

Wally ... if ya find that piece you bought in Bonaire ... send it ta me, hey? Rent the darn thing out, hey? I'm dependable ... heck, I'm a fellow diver!!!

:-)

.. gotta add - maybe just ditch the whole idea of editing above-water pics - and spend that quality time sitting at that bar stool listening to the island music!!!

Sounds like a plan?

Well, I have done two trips with he digital camera, and it is undeniably nice to be able to see what you shot that day, while it is all fresh in your mind. Also pretty nice to have a computer so you can see all the settings for the shot you are looking at.
That said, you can probably see your shots on your room TV with just the camera, so if you have enough storage media or dump the cards off on a CDR at Chat and Browse, you wont need a PC.
Most of what I do editing -wise is throw a lot of shots into a "pretty good" file so we can look at them in slideshow mode.
The interesting thing now is I can look at the time the picture was taken and my downloaded dive log and actually see exactly what depth I was when I took the shot, so I know that the Simians were at fifty feet. Better than memory, where everything is at about thirty or forty feet.
As for the pooped part, we went Nitrox.