I have wyze cameras for my home in the Pittsburgh area. I’d like to buy a couple for my mom’s home in Lima, Peru. In Peru, the outlet is exactly like American outlets, but operates on 220 current. So, American electronics with dual voltage, like shavers, cell phones and laptops operate perfectly fine in Peru. My question: Do wyze cameras operate on dual voltage, or any available that accept 220 current without frying themselves? Or would i need to buy a current adapter for each camera?
Technically they don’t use 110v either. Wyze cams use a USB cord, so the adapter they come with is rated to transform 110v AC current down to 5v DC current. So technically they don’t work with 110v or 220v and require an adapter to change it to DC at 5v. For that reason, it’s probably fairly safe to say that for safety reasons, you should get an adapter that changes 220V AC down to 5v dc with a USB port. If you have other adapters down there that work as an AC outlet plug to USB just fine, those will probably work equally fine for using with your wyze cams.
Note: I’m not an electrician, and can’t tell you what’s safe or not.
Edit: looks like Wyze adapters support 220v as explained in posts below
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All the WYZE power adapters that I have state Input 100-240 V (AC/DC) and the output is 5 Volt/1 amp or 5 Volt/2 amp depending on the camera.
I have changed some of the adapters with other brands just because I had one out of nine WYZE adapters fail after a long period of continuous use.
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@carverofchoice this time you are wrong. Wyze adapters are dual voltage 100/240 Volts AC so in the OPs case they will work in Peru. Here is proof.
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Brutal. It happens.
Amazing how so many items are universal. When I first traveled overseas, only my electric razor was switchable. Now with USB, 5v is everywhere.
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Perfect! And I like being corrected when someone has better information. 
Thanks for checking. I was going to check the adapter, but didn’t have one nearby at the time. 
Thanks for checking and posting buddy. 
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I always have an adapter and USB cable near by, the geek in me can’t have it any other way 
No problem buddy, I couldn’t resist proving you wrong
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Wait, even when this was going on?
Or when you are shopping away from home? Do you keep an adapter and USB cable in your pocket or something?
j/k couldn’t resist.
You are welcome to do so anytime. Facts are facts. I’d much rather have people do this, than let me live in a deluded fantasy land by enabling me and be willing to share things with me solely because it doesn’t conform with something I said or thought. Bah, lay it on me! I like being able to adjust my understanding and learn. You did good (Antonius too).
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Thank you all so, so, so much for all of your replies, especially this one. 
Now i can confidently buy a few more Wyze cameras for my mom’s place in Peru knowing they wont get fried! 
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What are friends for?
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You are quite welcome!
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I wouldn’t ask where it is stored.
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It is surprising just how many things are dual voltage now, even the cheapest wall wart USB chargers. Most things that do an AC to DC conversion will have it. Even some things like hair dryers have it (though they often have a physical switch like the back of an old PC).
My friends hair straightener however, not so much. Her hair would have been VERY straight had she used it before it smoked itself.
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I wondering if it was due to a heating device or two much amperage. On my first trip overseas to Norway in the US Navy in the 80s, someone plugged in a coffee pot with an adapter. Unfortunately it wasn’t a converter. The coffee pot brewed really fast but it only worked once.
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Yeah I’m guessing it is just related to the cost of building in a step down converter when higher currents are in use. But they do it now, that same trip the person’s hairdryer and curling iron (why do you need both a curling iron and straightener??) both were dual voltage. I think the hairdryer had a switch and the iron was auto ranging.
I’m guessing they still don’t bother with coffee makers and the like since most people outside the military wouldn’t be travelling with those.
I remember even the voltage adapters you needed special ones for resistive loads like hair dryers, it was more than just the current rating, so that may play in somehow too.
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For Halloween
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She literally straightens her hair then puts “loose” curls in it.
This is why we have to wait hours to go out to dinner.
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Oh, don’t even get me started…
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