Re: (OT) Voltage USA- UK

["Andy" <aoyz43@xxxxxxx>]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Crawshaw" <golcarbob@btinternet.com>
To: <ukha_d@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 5:15 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] (OT) Voltage USA- UK


>
>
> You could go the whole hog and fit a 110v ring main like Mike Huggins.
>
> http://www.blackfirs.com/110.htm
> http://www.blackfirs.com/cabinet.htm
>
>
> Regards
>
> Robert Crawshaw
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Stephen
>   To: ukha_d@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 1:30 PM
>   Subject: Re: [ukha_d] (OT) Voltage USA- UK
>
>
>   On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:38:41 -0000, you wrote:
>
>   >Can I get a wall pount plug socket that
>   >Is US format with the transformers built in.
>
>   If you look on the  cpc and maplin websites, they do plug in
adaptors
>   that plug into a UK socket and give a US socket on the back. They
are
>   just like any other plug in power supply really. Rather than
stepping
>   down the voltage to say, 12v dc, there is a transformer inside that
>   steps down the 240v to 110v. They are only rated for low power
>   appliances though. You can get larger step-down transformers if you
>   pay extra. I think you need to find someone selling US sockets and
>   then run a 110v ring main from a suitably rated transformer. I'd be
>   interested in this too; many HA imports have US plugs ;)
>
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