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Subject: Re: Question about pc voltage, cycles, phase, outside of USA

Author: Andrei P

Date: 17:45:38 06/04/04

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On June 04, 2004 at 17:37:02, Thorsten Greiner wrote:

>>I am wanting to ship a PC to a foreign country and now I am curious.
>>For those outside US--what is your standard household voltage for homepc?
>
>In Germany its 220 to 240 V.
>
>>Is the plug three prong as in US?
>
>No. A socket ("Steckdose") is pictured here:
>http://www.stadtwerke-hildesheim.de/images/steckdose_243.jpg
>
>And a cable looks like this:
>http://www.kw-e.de/media/KW_1950.jpg
>
>>Is your voltage single phase?
>
>Yup.
>
>>Is this also 60 cycle?
>
>No, 50 Hz.
>
>>I am curious about all countries.

in Russia it is very similar to Germany. there is no ground wire. the progs are
probably abit narrower then the German kind. but there are cheap adapters.



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