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AC power operating voltage in Germany
« on: March 06, 2004, 01:12:54 PM »
Hi dudes and dudesses
This is a question for anyone in Germany and is not really
about Amigas but I hope you can help.
I'm after an electrical item on ebay Germany and wonder what I can do to get it to work on UK voltage of 240V.
What is the standard German operating voltage. Is it 110V like France?

Thanks for any help
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Re: AC power operating voltage in Germany
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2004, 01:21:57 PM »
230V at 50Hz

240V shouldn't be a problem if the device isn't really old (new stuff is often build for 200-250V, to make sellable in more countries).
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Re: AC power operating voltage in Germany
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2004, 01:30:30 PM »
Thanks Kronos - that is good news.
The device is a Casio keyboard from about 1986 - that seems
quite recent in my memory but do you reckon that is new
enough?

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Re: AC power operating voltage in Germany
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2004, 01:36:55 PM »
You will be able to smell the answer ....... :-P

The other way of finding out would be to open it and check how it generates it's
internal voltage (probraly 12V).
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Re: AC power operating voltage in Germany
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2004, 01:40:50 PM »
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golem wrote:
Is it 110V like France?


Eh?  I thought all of Europe was standardised on 220V +/- 10%.  Anything you buy new anywhere in Europe should work with nothing other than a plug change.

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Re: AC power operating voltage in Germany
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2004, 01:50:07 PM »
@Kronos

Yeah..thanks!

@chris

Maybe I'm getting confused there about France being 110V.
Why do you get those switches on the backs of PC PSUs etc that can switch between 240 and 110 ? Incidentally if you do plug a PC into UK power with the switch set to 110V oddly you get a loud pop and an electrical smell..someone at work tried that!
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Re: AC power operating voltage in Germany
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2004, 02:04:22 PM »
The US has 110V (at 60Hz).
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Re: AC power operating voltage in Germany
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2004, 02:14:50 PM »
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Re: AC power operating voltage in Germany
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2004, 03:00:43 PM »
The actual European standard is 220 volts RMS at 50 hertz. It might vary from 210 to 250V from country to country, but this means nothing. I mean, my own country's voltage is rated at 240, but watching the graphs my UPS makes, it can vary from 218 to 252 V with no problems in any devices.
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Re: AC power operating voltage in Germany
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2004, 03:07:00 PM »
I recall UK uses non-standard power plugs so you might have to chance it.
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Re: AC power operating voltage in Germany
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2004, 03:37:38 PM »
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I recall UK uses non-standard power plugs so you might have to chance it.


The UK uses Standard Power plugs... it's the rest of the world that's non standard.
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Re: AC power operating voltage in Germany
« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2004, 04:48:00 PM »
@bloodline:
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Typical ;-)
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