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From: jms@antares.UUCP (joe smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Power supplies
Message-ID: <299@antares.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 88 08:04:35 GMT
References: <5865@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: jms@antares.UUCP (joe smith)
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In article <5865@louie.udel.EDU> DAVEA%CERNVM.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (David Almond) writes:
>In Europe they use a 220 v power supply and in my home country, England
>they use a 240 v power supply. If I want to take my Swiss spec Amiga back
>to England how much pain is going to cause to change the power unit.

In the manual that comes with the Amiga, there is a section of Appendix A
titled "Amiga 2000 Technical Specifications".  It says:

	Power:	U.S.: 110 Volts/60 Hz
		International: 220-240 Volts/50 Hz

That's the wonderful thing about modern switching power supplies.  They can
operate with any voltage between 220 and 240 (and sometimes more).  Unlike
older style power supplies, there is no need to change taps on a transformer
or adjust any regulators.  As far as I can tell, there is no "Swiss Spec",
all non-USA Amigas are the same.
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