On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Before things are shipped across the ocean, has there
been any
consideration of the effects arising from having machines designed to
work off the European power grid put into the North American power
grid. The supply voltage issue can probably be overcome with
transformers, but a differnce in the cycling of alternating current
rates (60 cycles per second in North America) could make them useless.
Will they even work with the same monitors as are otherwise used in
North America?
(patting my UK model Alpha) The conversion isn't likely to be difficult
at all... plug in a US model cable, and flip the little red switch on
the power supply from 220V to 120V. *BAM* UK->US conversion complete.
And this is assuming the power supply isn't autosensing.
(Even my desktop PCs have a switchable power supply.)
--Ricky