Multi-Voltage Travel Appliances

[Mrmaxwell]

My wife has been doing a lot of business travel to the USA and has found out her expensive Dyson hair dryer is not multi-voltage and won't work.

Any easy way around this? (most power converters are not designed for travel) I recall some hotels having multi-voltage power points - am I imagining this? Dyson have been no help even though no warning on the box and cheap Kmart hair dryers for $10 having this feature but Dyson at $500+ not. Dyson even had the nerve to advise the appliance is not meant for travel - then why include a travel case (after some silence working out an answer - domestic travel only sir)

 

[Forg]

Dyson’s a UK company AFAIK, and the UK (along with the EU) has the same First World a/c voltage as us.
Dyson is also exxy so there’s probably some multi-voltage product available which’d have cost you an extra $150 ...
Maybe she can check with the places she’s staying, with respect to 220V availability?

Hair dryers suck a lot of juice, so an upwards voltage converter is going to involve some relatively expensive (for a power adapter) power electronics.