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   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   In article <10in0u4$2rs43$1@dont-email.me>, BCFD 36   wrote:   
   >So I had to go find an adapter. I walked all over Amsterdam, or at least   
   >all over the area in which we were staying. (Near the Van Gogh museum   
   >for those who care.) No joy. Lots of straight pass thru, 220 European 2   
   >prong to American 2 prong with NO voltage change. Um, this won't work,   
   >until I happened to read that my CPAP and all of the 2 prong USB   
   >transformers for IPhones and our IPad are quite happy with 220. So I   
   >bought a pass thru and I could again breathe at night.   
      
   These days we live in the switching supply world and most switchers are   
   designed for a wide input voltage range so that a manufacturer can sell   
   the same model everywhere around the world.  This makes it easier for   
   people who travel.   
      
   When I was a kid most of the "voltage changers" were actually just   
   rectifiers that chopped half the waveform off and gave you a lot of   
   harmonics.  Made for very strange sounding electric razors, but they   
   worked.  Incandescent lights flickered a little but they worked too.   
   But cheaper than an autotransformer and good enough for a lot of things   
   people used to travel with.   
   --scott   
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
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