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From: dberry@CS.UCLA.EDU
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Subject: Are the following useable at 50 Hertz
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Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 23:12:32 EST
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I am moving to from the US to a country in which the delivered currency
is 220 volts/50 hertz. I am aware that it is relatively trivial to
transform from 220 to 120 to be able to use some appliances purchased in
the US. I am also aware that some appliances are designed to be switchable
or to not care! However there are two items we have that are marked
as 120 volt/60 hertz, namely IBM PC Color Display and Apple LaserWriter
Plus. When I go to the local 220 volt store, the salesperson (who could
obviously make money selling me more) claims that if I transform the 220
volt/50 hertz to 120 volt/50 hertz, I can plug the monitor and LW+
directly to the transformed currency. He says that even though they are
marked as 60 HZ, they still work! Should I believe him? Have any of
you out there in the 220/50 part of the world had any experience using
these items purchased in the US?

Thanks
Dan Berry