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- From: f92anha@fy.chalmers.se (Anders Hammarqvist)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: US -> UK amigas.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.230800.15662@fy.chalmers.se>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 23:08:00 GMT
- References: <68168@cup.portal.com> <1cgcd6INNsnv@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> <6296@pdxgate.UUCP>
- Organization: Chalmers University of Technology
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- In article <6296@pdxgate.UUCP> idr@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Ian D Romanick) writes:
- >>Using a 120/240 autotransformer to feed your Amiga with the right voltage
- >>will still leave its PSU with a frequency it wasn't designed for. Usually that
- >>won't matter, but if that PSU has a transformer which is running close to its
- >>limits, and you then feed it with the correct voltage but at a different
- >>frequency, you may just push it over the edge & cause it to eventually fail.
-
- Since most computer PSU's are switched, the line frequency doesn't affect
- it in most cases even if the transformer is close to its limits.
-
- >But wouldn't 50Hz generate less heat than 60Hz? So, wouldn't that make a
- >US Amiga less likely to fry in the UK?
-
- Nope, this is not true - what generates more heat simply has to do with
- what frequency the transformer was designed for. As for the stuff inside
- the Amiga - it's all running on DC anyway.
-