Hi again,
Thank you for all your advice. I I am located in Alberta, far away from
Ontario, so I had to find some other solution. I should mention that I
live on campus (doing my Ph.D.) and so I do not have any access to the
breaker panel or any 240V outlets in the building. I ended up getting
the Krieger 450W step-up converter for around CAD 85 (including
shipping), which is cheaper than many Ebay offers (usually the shipping
costs are too much, shipping can be crazy expensive in Canada). Many
thanks again for the excellent suggestions!
So I hooked it up to the step-up converter and I get a very strange
behavior: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC47kkjh1sc
Any ideas? What could be the problem?
Best wishes
Jens
On 2018-10-24 6:38 p.m., Charles MacDonald wrote:
On 2018-10-24 2:20 p.m., jb-electronics wrote:
Hi folks,
This is a bit off-topic, but I hope somebody can help. As some of you
know I live in Canada, but I am originally from Germany. Most of my
tools can be switched between 110V/220V input, so that's fine, except
for my soldering station. It is a Weller 40W digital station that I
have had for years and I do not want to buy a new one. The problem:
it only has a 220V input.
In order I would look to see if the unit has atrasnformer with two
primary windings connected in series... if so connect them in parrall.
That is a common way that North American designers tackled the
European market
second would be to see if a standard transformer could be swapped in.
you would have to determine what the output voltage would be, and then
look in the Hammond Catalog to find a good cadidate.
http://www.hammondmfg.com/5cpwr.htm
third would be the hammond autotrasnformer
http://www.hammondmfg.com/pdf/5C_298.pdf
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