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Article #18519Running 120V AC equipment off 240V AC.
From: Avinash B Chopde
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1988 18:41
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1988 18:41
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A question about stepping down voltage. I went into a Radio Shack shop to get a transformer (primary 240V, secondary 120V) so that 120V equipment can be run off 240V AC supply. I thought only the wattage should be important in such a transformer, but the salesman told me that the 1000W unit they have will work only for hair-dryers, and cannot be used for motors (food processors, etc) even if they are of lesser wattage. Does this have something to do with resistive/inductive loads ? Anybody have a simple answer (non-technical! - am an electronics ignoramus!), or, (better still) a refutation of the salesman's talk ? A specific question : will there be any burnouts if I use a 1000W convertor specified to be used for hair-dryers for audio equipment instead ? Thanks in advance for any replies. -- ================================= Avinash Chopde (abc@unhcs.CSNET) =================================
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-tis!lll-lcc!lll-winken!uunet!unh!abc From: abc@unh.UUCP (Avinash B Chopde) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Running 120V AC equipment off 240V AC. Keywords: step-down transformer, resistive/inductive loads Message-ID: <204@unh.UUCP> Date: 9 Feb 88 18:41:44 GMT Organization: University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH Lines: 22