Author Topic: Moving to Argentina in a week (Read 471 times)

Katamari007 · June 17, 2011, 06:29:40 PM

Some of you might know this, but I'm moving to Buenos Aires next week. I'll be living there for 3 years :u. Anyways, I can't really bring alot of electronics since the voltage there could fry my stuff.

So yeah, any ideas on what I should do when I get there?

Discuss.

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TheArmyGuy · June 17, 2011, 06:30:35 PM

Buy a transformer?
As in not the robots?

Crysist · June 17, 2011, 06:31:02 PM

Buy one of those voltage converter things?

Stocking · June 17, 2011, 06:31:37 PM

Buy a transformer. I lived in Europe for 4 years and I ordered all of my electronics from the states, but I ran them all off of a 2200V-1600V transformer, and it was pretty awesome. Also keep in mind that PC stuff is universal, flip the red switch on the back of your PC to change between different voltages, and software isn't region-protected like DVDs and console games are, and they'll all run on your computer.

TheArmyGuy · June 17, 2011, 06:32:09 PM

2200 VOLTS?
YOU NUTS?

Katamari007 · June 17, 2011, 06:34:44 PM

Mkay

So, how many appliances can one transformer hold, or does it depend on the model?

TheArmyGuy · June 17, 2011, 06:35:28 PM

Get one and connect it to one of those 6-exit extension cords.

Lørd Tøny · June 17, 2011, 06:35:37 PM

Isn't argentina poor? If so buy as much stuff as you can with your current money.

Katamari007 · June 17, 2011, 06:36:24 PM

Quote from: Lørd Tøny on June 17, 2011, 06:35:37 PM

Isn't argentina poor? If so buy as much stuff as you can with your current money.

Argentina is one of the richer South American countries

Stocking · June 17, 2011, 06:37:26 PM

Quote from: Katamari007 on June 17, 2011, 06:34:44 PM

Mkay

So, how many appliances can one transformer hold, or does it depend on the model?

Mine had one 3 pronged outlet, but I plugged some power strips into it and ran a GameCube, a 20-inch television, an Xbox, a Playstation 2, a Desktop PC and CRT Monitor, a sound system, my GBA charger, a DVD player, and an N64. It will be able to power pretty much everything, but it gets hot as forget. There were a couple times that I was scared it was going to just have a meltdown or something because it would get too hot to handle without wearing like oven mitts or something.

Quote from: Lørd Tøny on June 17, 2011, 06:35:37 PM

Isn't argentina poor? If so buy as much stuff as you can with your current money.

Argentina is like all white, think of it as California except with less Mexicans.

|Shadow · June 17, 2011, 06:41:32 PM

Quote from: Stocking on June 17, 2011, 06:37:26 PM

There were a couple times that I was scared it was going to just have a meltdown or something because it would get too hot to handle without wearing like oven mitts or something.