sicklittlemonkey wrote:
Yes, Japan uses 100V, but 50 or 60 Hz, depending where you live! Check out this funky world map of power supply info. http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm Japan is the only country split in two. Crazy. (Living here, this kind of thing doesn't surprise me.) I wonder if the Apple II power supplies here are different. Retro-computing is still popular here, and Apple IIs sell for outrageous amounts of money.
Many appliances and most modern power supplies are rated for 50Hz or 60Hz, so two types are not required. The peculiar split grid in Japan is a byproduct of prewar regional systems followed by postwar reconstruction. -michael Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."