08-17-2019, 02:53 PM
(08-15-2019, 03:16 AM)weka Wrote: I'm running a little behind everyone else in getting one of these lovely machines (I'd like one after the first ones have gone and been tested), but the question I have is -- you have EU and US power supplies. What do those of us in NZ and Australia do? We are 240V 60 Hz.
Thanks, I know ther is probably a simple answer.
You're absolutely correct--there is a simple answer (this is nowhere near as hard as my grandson's "Why is the sky blue, Granddad?")
The simple answer is that, for a long, long time, power-supply manufacturers have been building switching supplies (that's why they're so light, compared to the devices built in the bad old days. Have any idea how heavy an "IBM PC" power supply would be were it an old-fashioned linear supply?). As a designer of 'switchers' in a previous life, I can tell you that one of the absolute beauties which accompany these designs is the ability to handle an extremely wide variety of inputs (cheaper for the manufacturer; and you, too). I just checked all the 'wall warts' (5 vdc-15 vdc; modems, routers, netbooks, etc.) and laptop bricks (Asus, Lenovo, H-P, Acer) I could find; and, to a device, found input voltage requirements of 100 vac-to 240 vac, 50 Hz-60 Hz. I even found one device with an input spec of 90 vac-265 vac, 50-60 Hz.
I am not at all familiar with the MECHANICAL aspects of plugging electrical devices into the wall socket in New Zealand and/or Australia. As far as I can tell, that's the one--and only--aspect of all this you need concern yourself with. Except for ensuring that your voltage and current requirements are met, switching power supplies have alleviated most all your concerns and problems, save one: the "Why is the sky..." one.
