I lost my sony cameras charger. Can you buy just the charger (not the battery) at a store?its a sony black cyber shot camera. 12.1 mega pix.
The charger will have its input voltage marked on a label and probably also in the instruction book. It is normal for chargers and other power supply units bought in the UK and Europe to accept multiple input voltages. But the USA tends to be a bit isolationist and many electrical things sold over there will not work over here without some form of transformer. This saves their manufacturers some money when they're making power units. It seems as though your charger is seeing twice the mains voltage that it is expecting and has shut down. This may be a temporary thermal cut out, or it may have blown an internal fuse. If it's temporary then a 230 to 110 volt auto transformer will make it work again. In the worst case scenario the charger has sent too much to the camera, briefly before it shut down, and damaged it. That may be why the one size fits all charger doesn't work. The best thing for you to do is to take camera and charger to a Sony main dealer/authorised repairer, and have them check it all for you. Look for your nearest authorised repairer on the Sony web site.
Yes, you can. Since you don't bother to tell anyone which actual camera you have, nobody can take their time and find something so bloody simple as a battery charger for you. There is this magic thing called Google. You type stuff there, and it finds things for you. Go there. Type in Sony (insert the KIND OF BATTERY you need to charge) charger and press enter. Follow the links to find what you need. Don't you feel empowered now?
