Any suggestions, please?

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 17:42 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> 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.

God, to deal with that AND walk around upside down, it's no wonder the
beer consumption down-under. I'd stay drunk. :) Ric


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