5 Oct
2010
5 Oct
'10
2:55 p.m.
Rich Alderson [RichA at vulcan.com] wrote:
From: Ethan Dicks
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 1:35 PM
On 10/5/10, Rich Alderson <RichA at vulcan.com> wrote:
I can't speak for Germany but in the UK 110V/50Hz is often used in
factories
and building sites etc. (on building sites look for those
car-battery-sized-ish
yellow transformer boxes).
Not that I'd necessarily expect to see a TU55 on a building site (or
even on
a factory floor) but the voltage/frequency combination is not actually
outlandish.
Antonio
arcarlini at iee.org
>> How bizarre - 110VAC at 50Hz. Must have
been intended to be run
>> off of a step-down transformer.
> What's bizarre about it? It's being
sold in Germany. DEC sold a
> lot of gear that would run 50Hz (most of the world) or 60Hz (US and
> Japan).
Because it's 110VAC/50Hz, not 220VAC/50Hz.
I know it's being sold in Germany - the 50Hz
is not odd there, the
110VAC is.
Oops.
1 huge latte isn't enough, I guess.
Thanks for pointing this out so gently. Now I'm pulling the covers
back over my head.