international power conversion

[cellio]

Dear LazyWeb,

I am travelling to Israel and want to take some of my US electronics with me. I've found "international power converters" that claim to cover "just about everybody" but when they list countries/regions, Israel is never on the list. What kind of power do they use? What are the magic keywords that will let me not fry my laptop? As far as plugs are concerned, is "if it fits it's right" a safe approach, or dangerous?

Thanks.

Comments

[goljerp]

Hmm... when I was in Israel in '97, my laptop (a powebook 5300) could handle international power (well, at least as well as the pb 5300 handled power at all), but I remember getting those internation power converters (and plug converters) for the stylewriter II printer and modem. I discovered first-hand that if you plug the stylewriter directly into the socket, all the white smoke will come out. Actually, it still worked after that, so I guess not all the white smoke got out.

[cellio]

Thanks.

Or maybe some of your white smoke decided that the world is big and scary and returned home?