Guessing the micro does not like 60HZ. Terry
On Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 2:17:56 PM UTC-6, Jens Boos wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/989b7b59-1395-499c-9f27-a65977e0aae2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
