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From: kjws@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (K.J.W.Smithers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Taking my Amigas to Japan
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Date: 4 Mar 88 14:01:00 GMT
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In article <1030@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>
>Some items get a little giddy in Japan because their wall outlet
>voltage is 100 volts rms, rather than the 120 volts rms typical in
>the continental USA.  An Amiga would probably run on 100 volts, .......
>system.  One could probably get away with a 1.1:1 turns ratio auto
>transformer.  A good industrial electronics supplier should have
>such a thing.  It would probably be easier (and cheaper) to buy the
>transformer in the USA.
>
>--Bill


	If you ever go to Tokyo then you will find a little area (
(about a square mile) dedicated to selling electronics called Akihabara. This
area I am fairly sure will provide you with cheaper transformers than available
in the USA. I bought my step up transformer (100 to 240v) from little stall that
seemed to sell only transformers. It cost me 2500 yen for a 100watt version that
powered my a1000 +2-meg and 2nd drive happily. Of course with the US dollar
acting like a roller coaster it may not be cheaper but especially if you fly out
to Japan, the weight of your luggage is at a premium. At excess luggage rates
just to carry my transformer (2Kgs) would cost 50dollars.
	Just another militant attack on the US economy.
		Kit Smithers.
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