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From: abeles@mhuxi.UUCP
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Subject: Re: 50Hz to 60Hz converters
Message-ID: <274@mhuxi.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Aug-83 11:31:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 31 11:31:48 1983
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Give me a break!  50-60 Hz converters for a personal computer?
This really shows the maturity of computer technology:  someone
can use one without knowing much about electricity or the basic
ideas of how the thing works.

You ain't likely to find a 50-60 Hz converter anywhere for any 
reasonable price today which would be possible to carry anywhere
on an airplane unless you don't take any clothes with you.  Why?
Because the thing would have to work by totally reprocessing the
electrical energy contained in a 50 Hz sine wave using some kind
of power supply which would then have to power synthesize a 60 Hz
sine wave.  Think about it.  Your computer is likely to work at
50 Hz but that depends on the adequacy of its power supply.  The
50 Hz will not be filtered as well by capacitors but the voltage
regulator chips will probably not care one whit.

I am a bit disgusted by people who don't understand how things they
depend on work.