Christian McArdle wrote in message
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That's the one I was looking at. If buying one, I'd be tempted to buy a
3kVA
tucked away in a spare cupboard. You could then run a couple of 110V US
style sockets around the house to a 110V industrial plug. Your US visitors
will love you, and you can always borrow the transformer every time you
hire
something 110V from the hire shop and want to save yourself a couple of
quid. Alternatively you can start buying proper 110V tools yourself.


If you are going to do this remember two points.

1) These units are often noisy - hum.
2) The transformers are built down to a price and have very high losses from
magnetising currents. The running costs for a unit on all the time and
unused are quite high.

I've a couple used in this manner, but they are only connected when
necessary, for the above reasons.

Regards
Capitol