Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpfcso!hpfcdj!hpfcrlm!myers From: myers@hpfcrlm.HP.COM (Bob Myers) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Japanese Equipment in USA Message-ID: <17660170@hpfcrlm.HP.COM> Date: 11 Jun 91 16:50:49 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett Packard -- Fort Collins, CO Lines: 14 >We will be having a visitor from Japan in out lab this summer, >and he is wondering if his 100V Japanese electrical equipment >will work on North American 120V/60Hz electricity. What's the >line frequency in Japan? Can his equipment tolerate this much Unfortunately, the answer to this depends on where in Japan he's coming from; the line frequency for Tokyo/Yokohama and *north* is 60 Hz. For the southern part of Japan - south of a line across Honshu, roughly east-west just south of Yokohama - it's 50 Hz. Believe it or don't! Bob Myers KC0EW HP Graphics Tech. Div.| Opinions expressed here are not Ft. Collins, Colorado | those of my employer or any other myers@fc.hp.com | sentient life-form on this planet.