Battery charger and voltage converter

[Pierre]

Greetings..

.... I plan to use a battery charger in Europe (220V 50 Hz). I will
have a Radio Shack 273-1413 (Canadian model) foreign travel voltage
converter.

However, I see on the back of that device that it should not be used
with a battery charger.

What is the reason for this?

Thanks de F/VE2PID

[Murray]

They won't work with inductive loads - the transformer in the charger,
in this case.
Murray vk4aok

Pierre wrote:

> Greetings..
>
> ... I plan to use a battery charger in Europe (220V 50 Hz). I will
> have a Radio Shack 273-1413 (Canadian model) foreign travel voltage
> converter.
>
> However, I see on the back of that device that it should not be used
> with a battery charger.
>
> What is the reason for this?
>
> Thanks de F/VE2PID

[Murray]

They won't work with inductive loads - the transformer in the charger,
in this case.
Murray vk4aok

Pierre wrote:

> Greetings..
>
> ... I plan to use a battery charger in Europe (220V 50 Hz). I will
> have a Radio Shack 273-1413 (Canadian model) foreign travel voltage
> converter.
>
> However, I see on the back of that device that it should not be used
> with a battery charger.
>
> What is the reason for this?
>
> Thanks de F/VE2PID

[Murray]

They won't work with inductive loads - the transformer in the charger,
in this case.
Murray vk4aok

Pierre wrote:

> Greetings..
>
> ... I plan to use a battery charger in Europe (220V 50 Hz). I will
> have a Radio Shack 273-1413 (Canadian model) foreign travel voltage
> converter.
>
> However, I see on the back of that device that it should not be used
> with a battery charger.
>
> What is the reason for this?
>
> Thanks de F/VE2PID

[K7MEM]

Murray wrote:

> They won't work with inductive loads - the transformer in the charger,
> in this case.
> Murray vk4aok
>
> Pierre wrote:
>
>> Greetings..
>>
>> ... I plan to use a battery charger in Europe (220V 50 Hz). I will
>> have a Radio Shack 273-1413 (Canadian model) foreign travel voltage
>> converter.
>>
>> However, I see on the back of that device that it should not be used
>> with a battery charger.
>>
>> What is the reason for this?
>>
>> Thanks de F/VE2PID

I spent 3 years in Germany and never found those travel converters
of much use. We very simply used a 220/110 transformer. They are
pretty cheap to get, over there, but you wouldn't want to be carrying
one of these things in your suitcase. The 50/60 cycle thing usually
doesn't bother anything but clocks that use the line frequency. Even
then some of them have jumpers to adjust things. I ran my whole station
off of one big transformer.

We mostly bought our transformers used. There was always a brisk trade
of these thing between people coming and going.

--
Martin E. Meserve - K7MEM
http://www.k7mem.150m.com

[K7MEM]

Murray wrote:

> They won't work with inductive loads - the transformer in the charger,
> in this case.
> Murray vk4aok
>
> Pierre wrote:
>
>> Greetings..
>>
>> ... I plan to use a battery charger in Europe (220V 50 Hz). I will
>> have a Radio Shack 273-1413 (Canadian model) foreign travel voltage
>> converter.
>>
>> However, I see on the back of that device that it should not be used
>> with a battery charger.
>>
>> What is the reason for this?
>>
>> Thanks de F/VE2PID

I spent 3 years in Germany and never found those travel converters
of much use. We very simply used a 220/110 transformer. They are
pretty cheap to get, over there, but you wouldn't want to be carrying
one of these things in your suitcase. The 50/60 cycle thing usually
doesn't bother anything but clocks that use the line frequency. Even
then some of them have jumpers to adjust things. I ran my whole station
off of one big transformer.

We mostly bought our transformers used. There was always a brisk trade
of these thing between people coming and going.

--
Martin E. Meserve - K7MEM
http://www.k7mem.150m.com

[K7MEM]

Murray wrote:

> They won't work with inductive loads - the transformer in the charger,
> in this case.
> Murray vk4aok
>
> Pierre wrote:
>
>> Greetings..
>>
>> ... I plan to use a battery charger in Europe (220V 50 Hz). I will
>> have a Radio Shack 273-1413 (Canadian model) foreign travel voltage
>> converter.
>>
>> However, I see on the back of that device that it should not be used
>> with a battery charger.
>>
>> What is the reason for this?
>>
>> Thanks de F/VE2PID

I spent 3 years in Germany and never found those travel converters
of much use. We very simply used a 220/110 transformer. They are
pretty cheap to get, over there, but you wouldn't want to be carrying
one of these things in your suitcase. The 50/60 cycle thing usually
doesn't bother anything but clocks that use the line frequency. Even
then some of them have jumpers to adjust things. I ran my whole station
off of one big transformer.

We mostly bought our transformers used. There was always a brisk trade
of these thing between people coming and going.

--
Martin E. Meserve - K7MEM
http://www.k7mem.150m.com