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From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Can an Image writer be used in  Germany (220v 50 Hz) ?
Keywords: MAC Imagewriter 50 Hz
Message-ID: <678@uva.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 89 17:15:23 GMT
References: <9864@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In article <9864@ihlpl.ATT.COM> leg@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Ski) writes:
>I have a friend who will be moving to Germany and plans to take his Mac.  He
>has bought a 220v to 110v transformer but is not sure if the Imagewriter will
>work on 50 Hz.  Apple dealers have not been able to help.  Has anyone done
>this?  Will he have to buy a new Imagerwriter in Germany? Or can his be
>modified. 

It will work.  A U.S. ImageWriter I is rated to work on both 50 and 60 Hz; I
used mine in Germany for a year with no problems.  The interesting one was
the U.S. ImageWriter II, which, unlike the international version, is rated to
only work on 60 Hz.  So, according to Apple specs, no go.

But, I asked the net and got a reply from someone who had.  Result: I brought
my U.S. ImageWriter II to the Netherlands and have been using it with no
problems via a simple adaptor.

Note: the ImageWriter takes 20 watts idling, up to 120 watts printing.

-cbb
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Chris Borton	borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} 
Rotary Scholar & Network Administrator, University of Amsterdam CS