PDP8A chassis 50Hz

Steve Thatcher melamy at earthlink.net
Sun Sep 19 11:18:23 CDT 2004


look at the capacitor connected to the transformer. That is a constant 
voltage transformer and will need 50 hz to work correctly.

best regards, Steve Thatcher

At 09:09 AM 09/19/2004, you wrote:
> > A PDP8A chassis is listed on eBay, in the USA
> >
> > 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&item=5124686380&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
> >
> > Wonder what someone will think when they find out it's 50Hz only.
> > It's in the pictures, but not in the writeup.
> >
> > Ed K.
> >
> >
>
>That should not really matter that much, it is still 115 volts.
>The block of iron in the transformer is a little overspec-ed for 60Hz.
>
>Ed G.




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