28 May
2009
28 May
'09
5:29 a.m.
Strange fellows those Brittans, free after Obelix. (The creator of the
Menhirs in France, see the Asterix comics)
The rest of Europe is using 42-50V AC for safety tools, and they assume 110V
DC as the highest save DC voltage.
Long live Brussels ;-)
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Van: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] Namens John Foust
Verzonden: donderdag 28 mei 2009 13:59
Aan: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Onderwerp: Re: receptacles (was IBM 029 Keypunch has arrived)
At 02:23 PM 5/27/2009, Tony Duell wrote:
No we just put them on 230V most of the time, after of cause we changed the
jumpers ;-)
110V AC supplies are not uncommon in the UK. The
reason is that
industrial portable power tools (electric drills, etc) are
110V, [...]
The transformers are normally in bright yellow
plastic boxes (yellow
being the colour associated with 110V on connectors, etc), and are
rated at about 3kVA (there are much larger ones, that's the
smallest
you'll easily find). They're not cheap,
but an awful lot of
hacker-types will have one.
Interesting! I had no idea. So this is how they'll run US
classic computers?
- John
-Rik