Xbox 360 Power Adapter is 110/220V?

Zoolander

I'm thinking of buying one of them new Xbox 360/Kinect bundles in Canada and bringing it with me to Europe. Do the new Xboxen power adapters support both 110 and 220V?

Also, will an North American Xbox work with PAL TVs?

Sir Headless VII

I don't know if anything has changed but in the past my company has had problems with xbox's shipped oversea's because they were not compatible with 220V. This was at least 2 years ago.

vonPoonBurGer

According to Microsoft, the answer to your power adapter question is "oh hell no!" That article is up to date as of July of this year, and lists the eleventy-hundred different power adapters the 360 has. Bottom line, the North American and European adapters are in no way compatible. You'd need a seriously beefy stepdown transformer to use a North American 360 on European power. A 360 can draw up to 200W in games, so you'd need a transformer that can output at least that, plus you'd probably want some buffer in there. Something like this, basically.

As for NTSC vs. PAL, a North American 360 will work with a high-def TV in Europe, but it can't output PAL as far as I'm aware, so standard def. is out. Even if you have an HD TV over there, you still have to worry about region-locking on games though. Your console is going to be a North American unit. It'll apparently play PAL games (though the standard def. TV output is still NTSC), but only if that game isn't region locked (MS doesn't insist on region locking, they leave it up to the publisher to use if they want to). If you buy a European 360 game and the publisher has opted to region-lock that title, it won't play in your North American console.

Zoolander

vonPoonBurGer wrote: »

According to Microsoft, the answer to your power adapter question is "oh hell no!" That article is up to date as of July of this year, and lists the eleventy-hundred different power adapters the 360 has. Bottom line, the North American and European adapters are in no way compatible. You'd need a seriously beefy stepdown transformer to use a North American 360 on European power. A 360 can draw up to 200W in games, so you'd need a transformer that can output at least that, plus you'd probably want some buffer in there. Something like this, basically.

As for NTSC vs. PAL, a North American 360 will work with a high-def TV in Europe, but it can't output PAL as far as I'm aware, so standard def. is out. Even if you have an HD TV over there, you still have to worry about region-locking on games though. Your console is going to be a North American unit. It'll apparently play PAL games (though the standard def. TV output is still NTSC), but only if that game isn't region locked (MS doesn't insist on region locking, they leave it up to the publisher to use if they want to). If you buy a European 360 game and the publisher has opted to region-lock that title, it won't play in your North American console.

Ugggh that sucks on both counts.

I don`t really want to lug a step-up transfo with me on the plane, so I`ll look locally or buy something like this, even though it looks pretty sketchy and likely to burn my house down.

As for PAL/NTSC that is a real bummer, because I don't have access to an HDTV. I'll have to check if the TV is both PAL/NTSC compatible.

For games I don't care that much, I envision buying all my games in Canada only.

finral

I was using my American 360 in China (220 V over there), I just went to a market and picked up a new power supply after making sure the wattage was the same. Worked perfectly, never a problem.

Zoolander

Ok thanks guys, it seems to me that with a 220v power supply, I should be able to make it work.