Re: Need IIgs Conversion

[wyanttr@spoc.dnet.dupont.com (Tom Wyant)]

> 
> Need IIgs Conversion
> 
> dmcclain@runet.edu (Dennis McClain-Furmanski)
> I need a referral for someone that can convert my IIgs's to 230V/50Hz.
> Both run off of AE Vulcans and have standard IIgs color monitors. I'll
> be taking them to NZ in a year or so and need to start making these
> very important arrangements early.

Actually, maybe you won't. Our IIgs went to Spain and back a couple 
years ago, and ran very happily on a 220-110 step-down transformer 
(meaning: 110 volts, 50hz). We DID manage to get a universal power 
supply installed in the Imagewriter II (though I had to go 'round the 
back door to get it, since I was never able to convince the local Apple 
dealer that such a beast existed). If you look at the power supply specs 
(I believe I found them among the 20 pounds of less-than-high-tech 
literature that Apple insisted on packing with the GS) you will find 
that the frequency requirements are not real stringent, and while the 
voltage requirements are not broad enough to handle plugging the GS 
directly into 230, you ought to have no problem finding a step-down 
transformer that will bring the voltage into range for you.

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