brown@cs.rochester.edu (Chris Brown) (12/02/87)
If I wanted to take my 3b1 to England for a year, could I find a box to convert their 50Hz 220V into good old american 60Hz 110? 'Twould be even better if same box would serve here as a power conditioner and surge suppressor and UPS and all that good stuff here in the USA. Thanks for any help. Chris Brown (brown@cs.rochester.edu)
hrs@homxb.UUCP (12/04/87)
In article <4671@sol.ARPA>, brown@cs.rochester.edu (Chris Brown) writes: > If I wanted to take my 3b1 to England for a year, could I find a > box to convert their 50Hz 220V into good old american 60Hz 110? > 'Twould be even better if same box would serve here as a power > conditioner and surge suppressor and UPS and all that good > stuff here in the USA. > > Thanks for any help. > > Chris Brown > (brown@cs.rochester.edu) 220 > 117 volt stepdown transformers are readily available. Just get one f a sufficient Va rating. Don't worry about the 50 > }i60 Hz, it's all rectified anyway. The 6}i300 can be strapped for 200 V operation. Herman Silbiger batavier!hrs.
jeremyc@quad1.quad.com (Jeremy Chatfield) (12/06/87)
> 220 > 117 volt stepdown transformers are readily available. Just get one > > f a sufficient Va rating. Don't worry about the 50 > }i60 Hz, it's > all rectified anyway. > > The 6}i300 can be strapped for 200 V operation. > Be careful, England does not use 220V but 240V. Whilst a machine strapped for 200V would probably be ok with a 10% overload (200->220), the 20% overload of 240V might do some damage. 240->110V transformers are readily available in England. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Jeremy Chatfield, Quadratron Systems (UK) Ltd. ihnp4!psivax!quad1!jeremyc mc0/ gould/ ______________________________________________________________________________
jeffm@mmintl.UUCP (Jeffrey Miller) (12/16/87)
* There have been several comments about using 6300s and 7300/3B1s in Europe. The question is about power and it has been generalized too much. It is true that the 6300 has a jumper in the power supply to switch from 110 to 220 volts. With the green monitor, this is all you have to do to use it in Europe. The same is *not* necessarily true about the 7300/3B1. The 6300 is made by Olivetti, the 7300 by Convergent Technologies, and the only thing they have in common is the label they are shipped with. I do not know if the 7300/3B1 has this jumper or the equivalent, but before anyone assumes they will have no problem moving a 7300 to Europe, they need to check this out. Jeff -- * Jeff Miller * * Multimate International, an Ashton-Tate Co. * * 52 Oakland Avenue, East Hartford, CT 06108-9911 * * (203) 522-2116 x257 UUCP: ...!seismo!utah-cs!utah-gr!pwa-b!mmintl!jeffm *