> > > Another puzzle is why mine came with a 240V printer when it was a 110V US
> > > machine? How common is a 240V circuit over there, apart for the likes of
> > > washing machines?
> > How common is equipment that runs on 240V besides large appliances sold in
> > the US? Not very much.
>
> Might depend on what environment it was designed for. If for home or office
> 110v would be almost exclusively the norm. If it was designed for an industrial
> environment, 220v may have been used sometimes. Plus, so many pieces of
> equipment were designed to be switchable between 110v and 220v.
Well, maybe keep in Mind that Witchy lives in Britain, and 240 is
there (as for most other parts of the world) the standard voltage.
High power (3 phases) is supposed to be 400 :)
Now, for the question it's rather where did you buy the machine?
Since the Printer is 240 I assume in Europe. In the late 70s a lot
of machines got directly imported and the people used step down
transformers to operate them - Often dealers even managed to sell
these beasts to customers when the original PSU was switchable to
220 and so maxing the profit :)
Gruss
H.
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