[Gllug] [OT] Hardware

[Andy Farnsworth]

I am from the US and moved here.  If it is a CRT monitor and not an LCD
monitor, tell him to sell it and buy new here.  trying to get TVs and
Monitors working on UK power is very difficult and usually very expensive.
It has to do with the frequency, not the voltage.  Converting voltage is
easy, but converting the frequency is expensive and usually doesn't work
well.  Most other stuff, like the computer itself, should work just find
provided it has a universal power supply (i.e. does both 115 and 230 volts)
Some power supplies are truly universal, that is runs on anything from
100-250v at 40-70 hz, and some are switching power supplies, that is have a
switch to select either the 115v range or the 230v range.  The frequecy here
does not really matter since it is being converted to DC and strictly
regulated anyway.  Almost all computer power supplies can handle any freq
from 40-70 hz without a problem.

Andy Farnsworth
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-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
Of John Hearns
Sent: March 18 2003 11:47
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] [OT] Hardware


On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 22:37, Liam Delahunty wrote:
> A pal of mine is moving over to England from the US. He is a web designer
> (designer rather than programmer) and has a pretty high end machine.
>
> I thought it'd might be more cost effective for him to buy a new (to him)
> monitor from an auction, but still to bring over his "brain".
>
To use a US monitor you would need a step-down transformer.
I'm not sure of the 50Hz/60Hz frequence makes any difference - does
anybody know?
I think you are right - get a monitor here.



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