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From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 220V question
Message-ID: <682@uva.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 89 16:00:56 GMT
References: <54889@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <420003@hpbbm.HP.COM>
Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In article <420003@hpbbm.HP.COM> bwolf@hpbbm.HP.COM (Bryan Wolf) writes:
>Anyway  -- Imagewriter I or II will work on 50 Hz, 110 V;
I think you meant 220V :-).  110V 50 Hz would be a pain to find, I think :-).

>	-- LaserWriters (accd. to Apple) will not - you need to
>	       have the power supply swapped out;
>	-- Thunderscan - sorry, don't know.

ImageWriter II also, according to Apple "won't work"; mine does just fine, 
however, with a step-down transformer.  For a Mac and an ImageWriter you'll 
need 250W or so.  LaserWriters also aren't supposed to work like that, but I 
know one LW in Germany where I used to work that's been doing it merrily for 
over 3 years now...ignorance can be bliss, I guess.

A ThunderScan takes power directly from the Mac, so it works just fine.  I
ran one on my U.S. Mac operating on 220V in Germany while I was there.

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