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Re: Boeing's Connexion announcement

  • From: Mike Hughes
  • Date: Mon Oct 16 05:24:44 2006 
John Levine wrote:

In addition to all of the offered AC services others have mentioned,
some planes have power outlets for vacuum cleaners, typically behind a
small panel next to a door.

ISTR, these AC sockets are "airplane flavour" 115VAC @ 400Hz.

No. it's 60 Hz.  See this picture of one of the outlets.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/25645286/

and this page from Qantas web site

http://www.qantas.com.au/info/flying/inTheAir/communications

Don't you think that airlines would be smart enough not to install
power outlets that would destroy the equipment that the customers plug
into them?
I don't think the earlier poster was referring to the sockets you as a member of the travelling public are invited to use - i.e. the ones which are in your seat and labelled. Those *are* converted to 110V @ 60Hz.

These are occasional sockets, discreetly mounted at floor level, usually just forward of a door, often have a flip-up cover, for plugging in bits of airline equipment.

Mike