From: Peter Hucker 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.italian soc.culture.europe alt.politics.italy soc.culture.spain soc.culture.german uk.misc uk.finance
Subject: Re: Electrical plugs in the EU
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:10:09 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 22:21:27 +0100, Stefan Doll  
wrote:

> David Bloom wrote:
>
> [...]
>>
>> Well yeah, but I took a US digital clock for 60 Hz and it ran slow
>> and when I used my 60 Hz hair clipper it was very loud and varied
>> a lot. It sounded like a race car on its last legs.
>
> Well if your clock uses the input frequency as a time source it would
> have to run slow. Generally a plug adapter will only work for very
> simple devices (e.g. electric kettles, assuming they can withstand the
> higher current) or for switched power supplies. A transformer can help,
> but the voltages are not exactly half/double (one of the values specifies
> peak and the other average voltage)

Really?  110 volts in the US is peak?  So really the US only supplies 78 volts?  
Christ I'm surprised they can get anything to function at that voltage!

BTW, don't vandalise the newsgroups header please.  I almost posted an article which 
I would never see the reply to - now what the hell is the point in that?


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