Any suggestions, please?

Basil Chupin blchupin at iinet.net.au
Fri Sep 10 07:42:48 UTC 2010


Forgot to respond to the following.....




On 10/09/2010 12:30, Li Li wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 08:24 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
>    
>> On Friday, September 10, 2010 03:40 AM, Li Li wrote:
>>    My experience in places like that was that PSUs died more
>>      
>>> often than in the lower voltage, higher amperage countries.
>>>
>>>        
>> Power supplies today are all of the switching type. I'd put it to heat
>> and humidity being the contributing factor rather than the voltage.
>>
>>      
> Yeah-but it's still winter and cool in the southern hemisphere.  The
> predicted high for Friday at Sydney is only 20 degrees C and this is
> almost exactly the average for the date.  I don't know where Basil
> lives,

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, on the east coast, just above 
the Victoria/New South Wales border.

[pruned]

> Now I'm interested: I'll ask people at my former employer if they have
> any stats on PSU replacement frequencies, say in 100 V Japan and 250 V
> Oz for comparable equipment.
>    
Just to clarify: we actually have 230V (+/- 10%) [50Hz] but it is still 
referred to as 240V.

BC

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