Re: Power supply conversion?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Stephen Shaw wrote:

>On 26 Sep 2002 10:16:50 -0500, Scott Alfter wrote:
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>> In article <3d91faf2.91367259@news-text.blueyonder.co.uk>,
>> Rob Hamadi <rob@ubernerd-bacon.net-grill> wrote:
>>>Does anybody have any experience of converting a US (110V) Apple IIe
>>>PSU to run in the UK (240V). Or am I wasting my time even considering
>>>it?
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>> IIRC, you clip a wire inside the power supply to switch it over to 240V.
>> It should be a short loop of wire from one point on the PCB to another.
>> (My US-spec IIe was purchased in England (in the BX at RAF Lakenheath), but
>> it ran on a step-down transformer while we were in England and Germany.)
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>For 240V operation the two points marked 115V must be joined.

I'd bet anything that you've got that exactly backward.

Every Apple II supply that I've seen has a wire connected for 115VAC,
and no wire for 230VAC operation.

(That's why the points being connected are marked 115V!  ;-)

-michael

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