28 May
2009
28 May
'09
11:45 a.m.
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.
It's not _quite_ the same as US mains. For one thing it's 50Hz, of
course. And for another it's centre-tapped to earth, not one side
earthed. But it'll run a lot of US stuff, at least for testing.
-tony
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?