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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF
COMS 0.001300.0%Nov 7 11:47 AM EST
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To: Janice Shell who wrote (4148)8/20/1997 6:48:00 PM
From: otter   of 22053
 
Janice, I spent three years in the same kind of world (different country - same thing) you are in.

The travel plug adaptor kind of things you buy in luggage stores you plug into the wall that turn 220/240 into 120 service kills laptops and other electronic equipment not specifically manufactured for dual power. (if you had dual power, you wouldn't need the adaptor, right??) The reason is that the power is still 50 cycles per second where US stuff needs 60 cycles. US stuff doesn't like 50 cycle power. Now, I'm not an electrical engineer and perhaps one of the people on this thread may have better insight, but my experience was that it fried power converters - and in one or two cases, the electronic stuff itself.

Had the same experience as you with people that will fix before replace. One of these days if you stay there long enough (sounds like you are more than just visiting), that attitude will come in handy. One time, I unfortunately smashed a very nice watch. In the U.S., it would have been thrown away ($500 down the drain). Where I was, they rebuilt it for $20. Wearing it now.

By the way, II also bought one of those big klunky 10 pound transformers. It worked, and when I left the country I sold it for what I paid for it to another American who just blew into town. Just one of the upside/downsides of life outside the big PX in the sky. Think of it as an adventure.
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