Could anybody advise, what a convertor I can use to converte AC 220V/50hz to 110V/60hz for US audio components used in Germany?
US equipment, for example, operates on 110v/60Hz power, while in Germany the power is 220v/50Hz. So if you're taking US equipment to Germany, then one need a voltage converter kit, such as sold at Radio Shack or Wal-Mart.
It will step down only the voltage, and it also includes adapters for the different shaped plugs. What it does NOT do is change the frequency. For most electronics, it doesn't matter since internally, the power supply converts the power to DC which has no frequency (Hz). Unfortunately the internal MCU in certainly audio components preventing access to the operating functions, if the mains frequency isn't 60 Hz.
Thus I need a device like a motor control unit for synchronous motors (turntable/record player) like that one about the URL
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/anal...ve-vs-sine-wave-oscillator-motor-control.html
but appropriate for transformers instead synchronous motor.
Which commercial products are available in this matter and which diy projects are currently on the web? Thank you very much for advices.
An other possibility is the creating of a new software for the MCU appropriate for the German marked. But this is for normal user's much more complicated except in cases, where the user is a specialist for IT and software programming/developing.
US equipment, for example, operates on 110v/60Hz power, while in Germany the power is 220v/50Hz. So if you're taking US equipment to Germany, then one need a voltage converter kit, such as sold at Radio Shack or Wal-Mart.
It will step down only the voltage, and it also includes adapters for the different shaped plugs. What it does NOT do is change the frequency. For most electronics, it doesn't matter since internally, the power supply converts the power to DC which has no frequency (Hz). Unfortunately the internal MCU in certainly audio components preventing access to the operating functions, if the mains frequency isn't 60 Hz.
Thus I need a device like a motor control unit for synchronous motors (turntable/record player) like that one about the URL
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/anal...ve-vs-sine-wave-oscillator-motor-control.html
but appropriate for transformers instead synchronous motor.
Which commercial products are available in this matter and which diy projects are currently on the web? Thank you very much for advices.
An other possibility is the creating of a new software for the MCU appropriate for the German marked. But this is for normal user's much more complicated except in cases, where the user is a specialist for IT and software programming/developing.
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