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From: keeshu@nikhefk.uucp (Kees Huyser)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: 220/110 Volt switching.
Message-ID: <54@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Nov-86 17:52:31 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 10 17:52:31 1986
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In article <6302@ut-sally.UUCP> srinivas@ut-sally.UUCP (Srinivasan Sankaran) writes:
>I would like to buy an amiga, use it here for a while and take it to
>India where it is 220V/50Hz. Local dealers say I can't do that. 
>I can agree that I would have to buy a new monitor there. But does
>amiga not have a power supply switchable between 220(50hz)V and 
>110(60Hz) ? 
>
>Can somebody help me on this ?
>
>-thanks in advance.
>e-mail address :       srinivas@sally.utexas.edu

You could use a stepdown transformer to lower 220V/50Hz to 110V/50Hz.
I think most monitors will work on either 60 or 50 Hz, so that should
not be a problem.

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