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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Tony H on 01 January 2008, 14:42:52
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Hi all, firstly happy new year to everyone :y
A mate has just received a cd clock alarm he bought on the net, in the spec its from America and rated at 120V will this be ok to use on 240V? It does not have an inbuilt transformer.
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It will probally work for about 15 Nano Seconds....before it goe's Bang.
No it wont, dont plug it in!
Zirk
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If its rated at 120v, rather than 110 - 250v, then it will smoke pretty quickly
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Can you buy plug in transformers that would make it usable?
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Put a yellow 3 pin circular plug on it and use it on a building site... they use a voltage seperated 110v transformer.... No way use it for 230v 50 hz...
Or BANG ::)
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Can you buy plug in transformers that would make it usable?
Yes, but probably more expensive than just replacing with a 240v version
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A transformer would very likely work, but hard to find in the UK. Might be easier to get a transformer from Europe and use a plug converter for the UK. That's what we did for the missus' US Nintendo DS.
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Go on....plug it in....you know you want to.....
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Go on....plug it in....you know you want to.....
yea go on but make sure you video it on your mobile and put on here lol !!!! ;D ;D
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Go on....plug it in....you know you want to.....
yea go on but make sure you video it on your mobile and put on here lol !!!! ;D ;D
You could make £250 out of it.
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Or, he could just buy one of these (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MAINS-VOLTAGE-CONVERTER-TRANSFORMER-UK-240V-to-USA-110V_W0QQitemZ260198310137QQihZ016QQcategoryZ96942QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem). :y
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Nahhhhh.....that's no fun.
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Put a yellow 3 pin circular plug on it and use it on a building site... they use a voltage seperated 110v transformer.... No way use it for 230v 50 hz...
Or BANG ::)
Thats no good he works in a chippy....... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Even with a transformer to give it 120v, some clocks use the mains frequency as a timing reference so, because the US use 60Hz and we use 50 Hz, the clock will not keep time.
Kevin
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Throw the rather thing in the bin, and tell your mate he's an idiot ;D
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Those transformers work fine, I got one for a 200 disc CD player, and its OK, sits pluged in all the time, hasn't overheated yet.
Even with a transformer to give it 120v, some clocks use the mains frequency as a timing reference so, because the US use 60Hz and we use 50 Hz, the clock will not keep time.
Kevin
A lot also use a 32,768KHz xtal instead of the mains, so you might be lucky ! :y
Ken
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A lot also use a 32,768KHz xtal instead of the mains, so you might be lucky !
Agreed. Luck of the draw really, unless you open it up and look for a crystal.
Kevin
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Throw the rather thing in the bin, and tell your mate he's an idiot ;D
Why dont you tell him in person? he's 6"4' 17 stone a 5th dan black belt in karate and holds a number of international cage fighting championship medals ;D
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Tee Hee, guess who's gone off line !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KT
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Tee Hee, guess who's gone off line !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KT
It would seem so! ;D ;D ;D
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Throw the rather thing in the bin, and tell your mate he's an idiot ;D
Why dont you tell him in person? he's 6"4' 17 stone a 5th dan black belt in karate and holds a number of international cage fighting championship medals ;D
Steve would moan him to death ;D ;D
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Throw the rather thing in the bin, and tell your mate he's an idiot ;D
Why dont you tell him in person? he's 6"4' 17 stone a 5th dan black belt in karate and holds a number of international cage fighting championship medals ;D
Steve would moan him to death ;D ;D
Good point I could think of anything worse than being locked in a cage with Steve :o ;D
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Throw the rather thing in the bin, and tell your mate he's an idiot ;D
Why dont you tell him in person? he's 6"4' 17 stone a 5th dan black belt in karate and holds a number of international cage fighting championship medals ;D
Steve would moan him to death ;D ;D
Good point I could think of anything worse than being locked in a cage with Steve :o ;D
I would rather take my chance with Mike Tyson ;D
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Throw the rather thing in the bin, and tell your mate he's an idiot ;D
Why dont you tell him in person? he's 6"4' 17 stone a 5th dan black belt in karate and holds a number of international cage fighting championship medals ;D
Steve would moan him to death ;D ;D
Good point I could think of anything worse than being locked in a cage with Steve :o ;D
I would rather take my chance with Mike Tyson ;D
Ear plugs would give you "the edge" :y
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Throw the rather thing in the bin, and tell your mate he's an idiot ;D
Why dont you tell him in person? he's 6"4' 17 stone a 5th dan black belt in karate and holds a number of international cage fighting championship medals ;D
Shame about the lack of brain. :D
Tell him to karate chop the rather thing to death then :y
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Even with a transformer to give it 120v, some clocks use the mains frequency as a timing reference so, because the US use 60Hz and we use 50 Hz, the clock will not keep time.
Kevin
They stopped doing that 10 years plus ago when the generating companies seriously reduced the accuracy of teh mains frequency resultsing in drift of upto 10 minutes a week!