220v/50hz power rig

Thu Sep 6 03:42:23 UTC 2001

At 12:12 PM 5/09/2001 -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
>you're gonna love this one.
>
>i have a piece of equipment i will be shipping to china that i want to test
>before i ship it over.  it has a <gasp!> electric motor!  so i need some
>kind of transformer/inverter setup that plugs into red blooded american
>115v/60hz and can handle
>
>     Power requirement:  1.5 kW
>     Voltage requirement:  220 V
>     Frequency:  50/60 Hz
>     Current requirement:  10 A

there's at least 4 ways to do it:

  [1] its easy enough in Australia to get '240V/50Hz -> 110V/60Hz' 
transformers.
      i would imagine you could probably find the same thing in USA without 
too much
      difficulty.

  [2] on this side of the planet, its pretty easy to get hold of small 
portable diesel
      generators that can output 1500W @ 240V.

  [3] there's certainly inverters that'll convert -48DC to 240V/50Hz.  a 
couple of
      car batteries or your favourite telco DC rail would do nicely.

  [4] besides USA and Japan, just about everywhere else in the world uses
      240V AC.  sounds like an excuse for a European or Australian holiday 
to me ...

cheers,

lincoln.