Fox's Mercantile wrote:

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Phil Allison wrote:

I live in a 240V country = Australia.

The 120V gear arrives here by air or sea from dealers in the USA.

They come packed with USA 3pin to IEC 3 pin lead which cannot be used without a step-down tranny.

But that inviting IEC inlet is still a sittun thare.

Whose barking mad idea was it for the US to adopt a 240VAC Euro supply connector ???


The whole idea of the IEC connector was global markets.


** Bull****.


Want to sell US equipment overseas? Make it simple to switch
input line voltages, and use the correct cord without having
to change a hard wired cord.


** Strange how they are fitted to so much 120V ONLY gear then ?

For a great time, maybe still, it was not legal to sell domestic appliances in the USA user switchable to a higher voltage than 120V.

For very obvious safety reasons.

Way over your totally ****ed head.

YOU are one arrogant, revolting Ass.



..... Phil