[114828] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why choose 120 volts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Beckman)
Wed May 27 12:04:20 2009
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:03:54 -0400
From: Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com>
To: Peter Dambier <peter@peter-dambier.de>
In-Reply-To: <4A1D4C16.1000905@peter-dambier.de>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 27 May 2009, Peter Dambier wrote:
> Theory says no matter whether the setting of the powersupply is 120 AC ord 240 AC it
> should work. Try at your own risk. I haven't :)
I have. Was in the Netherlands last week, and plugged my laptop power
supply into the 240v (or so) feed, without incident (after referring to
the label).
I haven't seen a PC power supply which is incapable of both 120v/60hz and
240v/50hz in a very long time. I think even my 486 from 1994 had a switch
for 120/240 -- nowadays it auto-senses, no switch required.
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