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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Can an Imagewriter II work on 50 Hz
Keywords: Imagewriter II, Power
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.191820.25807@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 14 Nov 90 19:18:20 GMT
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In article <11722@spool.cs.wisc.edu>, haber@micah.cs.wisc.edu (Eben Merriam Haber) writes:
|> 
|> A friend of mine just moved to Germany (to marry the girl of his dreams),
|> taking his Mac SE with him.  He is wondering if it would be possible to
|> run a US Imagewriter II in Germany using a transformer to provide 120V.
|> 
|> I have heard that printers will not work properly at the wrong power
|> frequency (50Hz as opposed to 60Hz).  Does anyone know if this is true?

Definitely wasn't true when I tried it. Just make sure no one ever forgets
to use the transformer.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu