In message <[email protected]>, dated Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Mick
Maytum <[email protected]> writes:
Dans experience reminded me of a guy who bought a 120 V coffee maker as
a present for someone in (old) England. Having some knowledge of AC
supplies he bought a 240 V to 120 V travel adaptor so the coffee maker
could operate on UK 240 V mains.
In my youth (in Britain) I used to hang around the local radio dealer.
People of my age will know what a 'line cord' is - a resistive mains
lead used to drop the heater voltage for AC/DC radios, having a series
string of 0.2 A or 0.3 A heaters.
A guy arrived one day asking for a line cord for a 120 V 2 kW heater. He
had even worked out the required resistance correctly with Ohm's Law.
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