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WHERE TO FIND ADAPTOR AND CABLES FOR YOUR EUROPEAN APPLIANCES

If you want to know where to buy adaptors, voltage converters and computer cables in Manhattan.

Hello there architects!

In my first week in New York I tried to be operative for being able to receive emails and be in contact with my original country. Therefore, one of the first things I did was to look for electrodomestical stores in order to find an adaptor for my appliances (mobile phone, computer…etc), because in USA they use two flat connectors istead of the european rounded ones. Sometimes there is a third connector, but I have not seen lots of them so far.

People drove me to BEST BUY store, there are several around Manhattan, and I went to the one placed in E 86th street, crossing Lexington Avenue. In the E 86th st there are also other cheaper stores:

  • PRICE WISE (E 86th st between 1st and 2nd avenues), where the adaptors cost around 5 $
  • P.C. RICHARD & SON store (E 86th  between 3rd and 2nd avenues), where the adaptors for USA and Europe in both ways  cost around 17 $
  • BEST BUY, where there are an adaptor for travelling around the world  for around 40 $

But there was a problem. The voltage in USA is 110 V, while in  Spain is 220 V. If you buy just an adaptor to charge your appliances can work for a short time use, but they will be damaged in a long term period of time. Due to this fact, I started looking around for voltage converters. I found them in P.C. RICHARD & SON for around 30 $, and in BEST BUY for around 40 $. But on the same cover was written something similar to: «NOT FOR LONG TERM USE».

So I decided to buy the USA whole computer cable (the second part of the cable didn’t have the same connection as my european one) and charge my smaller appliances through the computer. I only found it in BEST BUY for aorund 70 $. I decided I would buy an american mobile phone with a prepaid simcard so I could charge my mobile phone anywhere, and you can find here one mobile for 40 $. But I will tell you about it in another post 🙂

 

 

Noelia Alvarez

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