Power requirements for a US Wii

[emissary]

Hi Guys and Gals,

I am in the fortunate position of getting a spanking new Wii from the Us this week. Now I have a US Gamecube and I have been running it using an official power adapter from a UK Gamecube, as I understand that the internal power of a Cube automatically switched over.

Is this the same case for the Wii? Can I use a UK Wii power supply from Nintendo UK? Or do I have to use a transformer?

Thanks for any guidance.

emissary.

[AllYourBase]

A 50W stepdown will do it. Better still buy a third party UK Wii PSU from eBay. Cheap as chips!

[charlesr]

Or buy an official one from Nintendo (phone them up).

Just to clarify your understanding, US or UK, both consoles take the same voltage input (12V @ 3.25A). Nothing happens in the console. It's just the power block that has to cope with a different input (110V or 240V) and do the conversion to 12V. Weeeee

[Mayhem]

A 50W stepdown will do it. Better still buy a third party UK Wii PSU from eBay. Cheap as chips!

A 50W stepdown won't do, you should go for 100W (the Wii has a rating of 53W). Or as said get a cheap UK supply instead.

[MattyD]

I use one of these:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=31899&doy=31m10

Only a tenner and rated up to 100w, so you can use it for pretty much any imported console up to the last gen - you'll need something a lot beefier to run an imported 360 or PS3 though.

[emissary]

Thank you gents,

So from what you have stated, if I ring Nintendo Uk and ask for a Wii PSU then like the Gamecube it should work fine, correct?

Or I can spend a tenner and get the transformer from Maplin as per MattyDs link.

[Swallow]

That's correct.

[emissary]

Excellent, thank you gentlemen (and ladies if that was the case). Now I just have to sourcce a cheap wii component cable.

[MattyD]

Game own-brand ones are about £8-£10 in store. Or the official one is about £14 on Play Asia. Personally I think a component cable's a component cable so I went with the cheapo one - as the console is only outputting 480p it's really not going to make any difference.