European Electricity Adapter? Wont work with Nokia's Home cell phone charger? HELP?

[grambo71]

I was wondering if anyone had any idea, why when using the european electricity adapter (220volt to 110volt) the NOKIA 6133 cell phone home charger will not charge the phone??? When I plug in my wifes curling iron, it will work, but when we plug in the cell phone, or even a camera charger niether of them will start the charge cycle??? I know that these chargers work on only exactly 110 AC, and if the algorythm is any shorter of a cycle or longer, perhap the chargers have a safety device that stops them from allowing current through?? I called T-mobile carrier and of course they are clueless. I havent tried nokia yet, but am going to shortly. I was wondering if anyone had this issue ever with their cell phones, or knew how to fix the issue?

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Graham C.

fort Lauderdale, FL USA.

[Charlyee]

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grambo71, welcome to WA.

I am sorry but I need to ask a question in reply to your question - Is there a reason why you are using a converter? To the best of my knowledge all tri & quad band GSM phones have chargers with input 100-240 v, 50/60 cycles, so they work seemlessly without a converter anywhere in the world. All you would need is an adapter for the various pin configurations.

Although I don't know much about digital cameras but the few that I am familiar with, also have the same input specifications for their chargers.

Maybe I am just not understanding your problem, so if you can please clarify.

Thanks

[cavuu]

Originally Posted by grambo71

I was wondering if anyone had any idea, why when using the european electricity adapter (220volt to 110volt) the NOKIA 6133 cell phone home charger will not charge the phone??? When I plug in my wifes curling iron, it will work, but when we plug in the cell phone, or even a camera charger niether of them will start the charge cycle??? I know that these chargers work on only exactly 110 AC, and if the algorythm is any shorter of a cycle or longer, perhap the chargers have a safety device that stops them from allowing current through?? I called T-mobile carrier and of course they are clueless. I havent tried nokia yet, but am going to shortly. I was wondering if anyone had this issue ever with their cell phones, or knew how to fix the issue?

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Graham C.

fort Lauderdale, FL USA.

The 110v-220v converters require a minimum amount of power to work. The charger does not use enough power. But as the previous poster noted you should only need the plug adapter not the converter