Moving to France

Hi,

NYer living in Croatia here. Just about to ship my full AR system, Basis TT, Raidho C1s etc and found this online. I have no personal experience with so I can’t vouch, but I’m seriously considering it as it address both the V and Hz issues and can be dialed in, ie 230-220v/50Hz > 110-115/60 or the other way or 110-115/60Hz> 220-230/50Hz etc. Good feature if you get and 220 gear in the EU and want to bring it back to the 110 zone. Hope this is helpful.

Good luck with your gear and journey,

http://www.gohz.com/1kva-frequency-converter#tabs

Hi there
Welcome to France ! :-)
You can easily find step down transformers... that’s what people do when they don’t want to tweak their equipments. The recommandation is to take a transformer with 2x the needed power of your equipment.

A well know hifi tranformer brand (reasonably priced), made in Germany (they have various power available):
https://www.tubeampdoctor.com/en/tad-step-down-transformer-with-enclosure-1000va?number=VT1000ESG-S

ps, according to the write up on their page, you can program this thing to any exact frequencies you want. 240 to 117 or 239 to 112 etc.


http://www.gohz.com/1kva-frequency-converter#tabs

@asvjerry

As you point out, California is the accent of TV and the movies. It is therefore usually perceived as sophisticated, in my experience.

What a great place to move to, seriously, it was wonderful. You know French, so you’re good to go, I understood the French being unimpressed with visitors not showing even the respect to learn polite phrases while visiting them in their country. Making an effort to show respect goes a heck of a long way when traveling I have found.

I have been from Calais to Archachon, through the Pyranees and back across to Nice into Italia. I have stayed with a friend in Le Chesnay Versailles, and we drove all over France.

One of the biggest stand outs for me was Nimes, which was a Roman outpost, and the unlikely location for possibly the Worlds best preserved Roman Coliseum and Aqueduct system. It’s a photo opportunity and of hisorical significance if you’re into that kind of thing?

Not that I would have brought it up, but it has been already, well sort of, it’s not uncommon to find people walking dogs inside shopping centres, your wife will no doubt tell you, when you do see "stuff" you normally wouldn’t see. I was more than a little surprised in Cannes shopping centre with wall to wall marble and a stream of "stuff" just left on the floor.

Oh and the food, it’s simply exquisite! The family I stayed with thought I was such a nice guy to get baguettes in the morning, but I was actually getting myself chausson aux pommes, and demolished them on the way back with the bread.

Electricity is not such a problem as others have said, using a transformer to half the voltage will pretty much double your amperage, so you aught to have pretty decent Wattage using a good transformer like the one suggested.

@tony1954

Truth is France or Seattle, there are toilets everywhere if that is how you travel.

Just be sure to have a couple of Euro coins though when you’re out in Paris. Peeing in a four way cubicle (okay it absolutely wasn’t a cubicle) in the middle of the street took some gumption the first time.. But after the stage fright, it was all down stream from that.

Have fun areed622 Bon Voyage