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From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: American Amiga 500 in Europe
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.235824.26169@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 20 Mar 91 23:58:24 GMT
References: <403@rosie.NeXT.COM>
Reply-To: jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <403@rosie.NeXT.COM> aozer@next.com (Ali Ozer) writes:
>Any ideas what I need to run an Amiga 500 bought in the US in Europe?
>Can I just plug a US 1084S and a US 500 into a 240->120 transformer and have it
>all work?  Or do I need anything else (like new chips, etc)? And what
>about if I tried to use a US 500 with a monitor bought in Europe? And finally
>(I suspect here it gets messy) how about a US 500 with a European TV?
>
>Any suggestions/experiences appreciated; please post or send me mail.
>Thanks...
>
>Ali, Ali_Ozer@NeXT.com

	It's no problem to make the Amiga think the line voltage is 220V.
A couple years ago I bought a CItoh 1550 wide carrige printer that wanted
220 volts. I just stepped up the 110 line voltage to 220 with a step up
transformer. I was lucky that it made no difference to the printer that
the line frequency was now 60Hz instead of 50Hz. I don't know if the
Amiga cares, but if it derives timing from the line frequency - the timing
will be off (faster). 

					-Jeff