Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekcrl!tekfdi!videovax!stever From: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 220V-->110V Transformer Summary: Be SURE it is for 50 Hz!! Message-ID: <4726@videovax.Tek.COM> Date: 9 Dec 87 21:34:17 GMT References: <69@ucrmath.UUCP> <2911@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.) Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon Lines: 26 In article <2911@cbmvax.UUCP>, George Robbins (grr@cbmvax.UUCP) writes: > In article <69@ucrmath.UUCP> harper@hope.UUCP (Larry Harper) writes: >> While I'm over here in the States I want to stock up on all those neat >> peripherals that are coming out over here, and which are sorely lacking in >> France. But before going on a buying spree I was wondering if anyone could >> point me in the right direction for getting the transformer I'd need to >> run those peripherals on the old continent. > > Any decent electrical or electronics jobber [ignore those wholesale only > signs] should carry a generic 120/240 volt step up/step down transformer. > . . . Be VERY careful to get a transformer that is designed for 50 Hz operation! It takes quite a bit more iron to keep the core from saturating at 50 Hz than at 60 Hz (U.S. power frequency). An extremely painful lesson would be learned the hard way if one took a standard 60 Hz tranformer to France, plugged it in, walked out of the room, and came back an hour later to find it smoking! Steve Rice ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * JESUS Is The REASON For The SEASON! (Merry Christmas and Happy New Year) * new: stever@videovax.tv.Tek.com old: {decvax | hplabs | ihnp4 | uw-beaver}!tektronix!videovax!stever