[GreenKeys] Australian Power cords.

[Dave Horsfall]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2022, John, W9DDD wrote:

> I spent a year living in Bogota Colombia.  The first few months there, I had
> to have auto transformers for the US appliances.  The voltage was around 150
> volts phase to neutral.  I had to do some funny stuff on the dryer.  Motor
> stepped down to 120 and the heating element at 150.  Took a bit longer to
> dry.  During the time I was there they switched to 120.  All of sudden step
> down transformers became real cheap.  It was 60 Hz, I remember that because
> I had taken a 28 KSR with me.  The dryer then took another change to get the
> heating element to run on the 208 phase to phase and the motor on 120. 

My daddy taught me to never use an auto-transformer to step down; if that 
bottom connection ever comes loose, your load will be seeing 240v instead 
of 120v for example, and it might not like that...

-- Dave VK2KFU