Hi Fanus, I have been to South Africa but I can't remember which adaptor I used. Of course, you will need a converter as well as the adaptor because, in North America we use 110-120 volts at 60 cycles and South Africa is 220 volts at, I believe, 50 cycles. Before leaving here, I purchased a 220 to 110 volt converter and it came with 4 or 5 adaptors. One of them definitely fits. I believe its 3 prong. I think 2 round and a flat but I'm not absolutely sure. A set of adaptors is very inexpensive and available anywhere. My adaptors were, from European 2 round prongs to everything else. If you need a converter only for basic appliances, you don't need to purchase the converter for electronics such as a computer. A simple converter for something like a shaver will work and is not very expensive at all.
HTH Ron & Danvers -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 1:57 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Prizmo with StandScan Pro Hi Fanus, You are correct, North America has 2 flat prongs and from how you describe it your 2-round prong configuration sounds just like what I am used to from growing up in Germany. However, I just did a Google search for "What power plugs are used in South Africa" and I found the following website: http://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity.htm This website describes 14 different plug configurations (from type A through type N) which are used around the world. According to this, Type M is most widely used in South Africa and while it sounds similar to Type E and Type F which are the German standards, I believe it is different. But I am sure you can find an adapter or maybe the Standscan comes with some adapters. I once bought a Skype desktop telephone from a company called Ipevo and it came with about 6 different adapters. It is completely incomprehensible to me why there isn't more standardization. I guess it wouldn't be an easy thing to change something like that, but I'm sure it could be done over time. Of course we all know that the German Type F "SchuKo" plug is the best because, well... it's German *smile* Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Fanus Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 4:10 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Prizmo with StandScan Pro Hello Anne and list I want to order the StandScan pro but I am also considering to buy the AC adapter. My problem is that they give three pin configurations, for US, UK and europe. If I remember correctly the US has two flat pins but I am not sure of the UK and Europe. Here in South Africa we use adapters with two round pins. Which of the UK or Europe adapters will work? Regards Fanus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Robertson" <annefromo...@gmail.com> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 10:15 AM Subject: Re: Prizmo with StandScan Pro Hello Julian, Here's the link for the StandScan Pro: http://standscan.com/StandScan/index.php/product/standscan.html It took nearly three weeks to arrive, but it's great. Cheers, Anne On 9 Mar 2013, at 07:44, Julian <mrc1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Can you provide a link or information on where I can > purchase this > device? Thanks in advance. > > Julian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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