29 May
2009
29 May
'09
2:49 a.m.
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 19:45 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
I have a friend who works for an equipment hire company that deals with
touring bands, who has such a device. It's a four-way "US socket"
extension with a ceeform plug on the other end, to plug into a yellow
tranny and provide power for personal equipment that bands bring over
At 02:23 PM 5/27/2009, Tony Duell wrote:
Indeed. I have a cable with a suitable plug on one end to fit the
transformer (It's normally called a 'BS4343 plug' over here after the
British Standard that refers to it , there is a CEN number, but I can't
rememebr it :-)) and a US cable-mount socket on the other. Very useful
for running US stuff. 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? from the US. Some people are very touchy about only
using *their*
hair-straighteners, apparently...
Gordon