Re: [Bismark-devel] useful QA gear needed

[Jim Gettys <jg@freedesktop.org>]

On 05/04/2011 03:01 PM, Nick Feamster wrote:
> On May 4, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
>> South africa is 230v, 50hz, is there a way to simulate that? do you already have power supplies for this conversion?  See:
>>
>> http://users.telenet.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm
>>
>> The socket looks like this (I think)
>>
>> http://users.telenet.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm#plugs_d
> This is correct.  I looked at the input for the transformer, and it seems it will take the input (have personal experience with this).
>
I recommend getting a local person who can tell you if the power is 
clean enough to not just blow up the power bricks; probably the easiest 
way to deal with this is to use power bricks sold locally.

As Dave can tell you too, power in many parts of the world is hazardous 
to equipment's life...  Just meeting the letter of what the power brick 
tells you doesn't ensure it will survive any amount of real use.

Your paranoid friend,
                     - Jim