Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:10480 comp.sys.att:4867 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!ames!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!mcvax!ukc!pyrltd!datcon!sar From: sar@datcon.UUCP (Simon A Reap) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.att Subject: Re: UNIX PC, 110V-> 220 and "Norwegian" UNIX verion. (questions) Message-ID: <32@datcon.UUCP> Date: 2 Dec 88 17:09:49 GMT References: <3287@sdsu.UUCP> <1259@vsedev.VSE.COM> Reply-To: sar@datcon.co.uk (Simon A Reap) Organization: Data Connection Limited, Enfield, Middlesex, UK Lines: 21 In article <1259@vsedev.VSE.COM> logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III) writes: >In article <3287@sdsu.UUCP> knut@sdsu.UUCP (Knut B. Haaland) writes: >#Does anybody know if there exists special adaptors converting from >#110V to 220V for computers? >I'm no electronics expert, but it seems to me that if they use 60 >HZ in Norway, you can just buy a trasformer with a 2:1 winding >ratio that's hefty enough to handle the wattage drawn by your >machine. All you need is the right voltage - my (U.S.) UnixPC copes quite happily with (U.K.) 50Hz with just a plain, big, 300 Watt transformer, bought for 20 pounds, sterling. Be wary of little adapters sold to power travellers' electric razors and so on. I tried one and, even though it had enough power, the output was so dirty that it managed to blow the top off one of the capacitors in the PC's internal power supply board! (VERY noisy and not a little worrying, finding little bits of aluminium spread all over the innards of one's favourite toy!) -- Enjoy, yerluvinunclesimon Opinions are mine - my cat has her own ideas Reach me at sar@datcon.co.uk, or ...!mcvax!ukc!pyrltd!datcon!sar