Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!stuartb
From: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Can I take a Mac to Australia?
Message-ID: <7331@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 89 00:25:43 GMT
References: <11457@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <392@usage.csd.unsw.oz> <7303@microsoft.UUCP> <13392@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <13392@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) writes:
>In article <7303@microsoft.UUCP>
>stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden) writes:
>>The Mac has a switching Power Supply.  You do not need a transformer, Rees.
>
>No, you don't need it, but IMHO it is a good idea.  When you're running the
>Mac at 120V with a power supply with a tolerance of up to 250V, a small
>power spike (30-40V say) won't cause you trouble.  When running off 220-240V
>though, a power spike of that magnitude can toast your power supply.
>Add that to the fact that you are in a foreign country (meaning of
>course expensive repairs) and it's worth the security.
>
>I speak from experience.  It happened to me once.  Then I put a transformer
>on the damn thing and it survived every spike thereafter.
>
>-Ivan

Then what you are saying is that Apple Australia should indeed be supplying
Transformers with every Macintosh that they sell!.. I'm sure they'll buy that
one :-) :-)

Stu.

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