zeiden@ai.cs.wisc.edu (Matthew Zeidenberg) (09/12/88)
Does anyone know if an Imagewriter II can be used overseas (e.g. on 220V, 50hz) with a suitable transformer, or does it rely on the 50hz somehow? If it won't work, can the power supply be retrofittted for a reasonable cost somewhere? Please mail responses directly to me, and I will summarize for the net. Thanks. Matt Zeidenberg
zeiden@ai.cs.wisc.edu (Matthew Zeidenberg) (09/21/88)
Here are some responses I recieved on my posting about using an Imagewriter II overseas: From NMKATZ@pucc.bitnet Mon Sep 12 00:53:58 1988 Received: from vms3.macc.wisc.edu by ai.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 12 Sep 88 00:52:57 CDT Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by vms3.macc.wisc.edu; Mon, 12 Sep 88 00:53 CDT Received: by PUCC (Mailer X2.00) id 3860; Mon, 12 Sep 88 01:53:56 EDT Message-Id: <11908799468780001@vms3.macc.wisc.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 88 01:50:23 EDT From: "Nicholas M. Katz" <NMKATZ@pucc.bitnet> Subject: Re: Imagewriter II overseas <6252@spool.cs.wisc.edu> To: zeiden Status: RO Two friends of mine have had no problem just using a voltage transformer and not worrying about the hertz. Probably it's not a good idea to print for hours at a time that way because of extra heat buildup, but in both cases (one 14 months, the other 23 months and still continuing) there were no problem s whatever. Good luck From jeff@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu Mon Sep 12 08:52:11 1988 Message-Id: <8809121352.AA05645@ai.cs.wisc.edu> Received: from NDCHEG.CHEG.ND.EDU by ai.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 12 Sep 88 08:52:02 CDT Received: by ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu; id AA20830; Mon, 12 Sep 88 08:56:10 EST Date: Mon, 12 Sep 88 08:56:10 EST From: jeff@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (Jeffrey C. Kantor) To: zeiden Subject: Re: Imagewriter II overseas In-Reply-To: your article <6252@spool.cs.wisc.edu> News-Path: iuvax!rutgers!uwvax!ai!zeiden Status: RO No problem. I went to England in January with an IW II. Plugged it into a transformer and everything worked fine. Caution though: I also attempted running it from a voltage converter (like the ones for electric shavers). When I turned the IW on, sparks flew and the converter was thoroughly toasted. Moral: Use a real transformer Jeffrey C. Kantor Dept. of Chemical Eng. Notre Dame jeff@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu From kddlab!hanako.stars.flab.fujitsu.junet!feldmark@uunet.uu.net Tue Sep 13 06:03:29 1988 Received: from uunet.UU.NET by ai.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 13 Sep 88 06:03:09 CDT Received: from kddlab.UUCP by uunet.UU.NET (5.59/1.14) with UUCP id AA29076; Tue, 13 Sep 88 07:01:49 EDT From: kddlab!hanako.stars.flab.fujitsu.junet!feldmark@uunet.uu.net Received: by kddlab.kddlabs.junet (4.12/6.2Junet) id AA03627; Tue, 13 Sep 88 18:54:03+0900 Received: by titcca.cc.titech.junet (4.12/6.3Junet-1.0) id AA23089; Tue, 13 Sep 88 19:21:48 jst Received: by fgw.fujitsu.junet (4.12/6.3Junet-1.0) id AA03424; Tue, 13 Sep 88 19:11:48 JST Received: by flab.flab.fujitsu.junet (5.51/6.3Junet-1.0) id AA09629; Tue, 13 Sep 88 19:11:08 JST Received: by hanako.stars.flab.fujitsu.junet (3.2/6.2Junet); Tue, 13 Sep 88 19:10:11 JST Date: Tue, 13 Sep 88 19:10:11 JST Return-Path: <feldmark@hanako.stars.flab.fujitsu.junet> Message-Id: <8809131010.AA01362@hanako.stars.flab.fujitsu.junet> To: zeiden (Matthew Zeidenberg) In-Reply-To: zeiden@ai.cs.wisc.edu's message of 12 Sep 88 03:25:07 GMT Subject: Imagewriter II overseas Cc: feldmark%fgw.fujitsu.junet@uunet.uu.net Status: RO I started using an Imagewriter II here in Japan on 100V 50Hz. Worked fine at first. Then after I moved to another location, it started getting horizontal lines through each line as if a pin in the print head was bad. It's in the shop right now, and I had a friend take care of it for me so I don't know what the problem is yet. I had been to a store that sells Macs, and they had a US model they claimed ran perfectly on normal Japan power. So it may work. I have no proof at this time as to whether or not the power caused my problem. All I know is that if it had been in the USA it would still be under warantee, but it ain't here! (So I am a bit upset by the whole thing.) Mark Feldman Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory feldmark@hanako.stars.flab.fujitsu.junet (Japan) feldmark%hanako.stars.flab.fujitsu.junet@uunet.uu.net (USA)