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 Lines: 32 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. __Paths to my door:_______________________ microsoft!stuartb@beaver.cs.washington.edu - Usual disclaimer, that all microsoft!stuartb@uw-beaver.arpa - the above is pure fantasy microsoft!stuartb@uunet.UU.NET - and Microsoft only [DE01HB]stuartb@DASNET# {from AppleLink} - gave me the Mountain Dew stuartb@microsoft.uucp {well connected} - to dream it all in a D2012 {@applelink.apple.com - shared acct} - caffeine haze :-) __________________________________________________________________________