North American Network Operators Group

Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

Re: 220v/50hz power rig

  • From: Miquel van Smoorenburg
  • Date: Thu Sep 06 04:02:06 2001
  • Distribution: cistron
  • Newsgroups: lists.nanog

In article <[email protected]>,
David Lesher  <[email protected]> wrote:
>Unnamed Administration sources reported that Randy Bush said:
>> i have a piece of equipment i will be shipping to china that i want to test
>> before i ship it over.  it has a <gasp!> electric motor!  so i need some
>> kind of transformer/inverter setup that plugs into red blooded american
>> 115v/60hz and can handle
>> 
>If you want to test it on 50 Hz, you have a real issue.  You can
>not easily generate that much; there is no easy way to morph 60
>into same.
>
>There ARE test sets that generate 50HZ from 60 (actually, 60->DC->50)
>but offhand I do not know where you'd find one.

Find a no-break UPS that can handle both 115/230 in and outputs 230

Mike.
-- 
"Answering above the the original message is called top posting. Sometimes
 also called the Jeopardy style. Usenet is Q & A not A & Q." -- Bob Gootee