Ok so, check it. I play a Japan based Mobile crane game called Toreba and, ended up winning a bunch of stuff up to and, including Small Appliances all of which are the Japan standard of using 100 Volts instead of the American standard of 110-120 Volts. The reason why I ended up buying a couple of the 1000 Watt rated boxes(One for the computer area and, one for the Kitchen.I'll add that story too) is because one of the many items that I had won from Toreba was a single person Sandwich Maker. you know, the kind that cuts the sandwich diagonally as it grills it. Anyway, I loved this thing and, would often take it to work with me just so I could make something quick in like 5 minutes time and, then back to it. (Lots of outdoor kind of work) But, one night I noticed that the top part wasn't heating as much and, the bottom section was scorching my bread so I knew it was probably about to out and, sure enough It quit later that night. I opened it up and, all the wiring all looked intact and, everything but, I guess the elements just burned out. So I admitted defeat and, knew that I brought this on myself because I knew that it would happen eventually, I just didn't know that it would happen that quickly (like a month and a half of use) but, I did get some fair bit of use out of it.
Now for the story of the Prior-mentioned Kitchen placed box. My wife's coffee pot had stopped work properly and, she needed another one but as luck would have it, I had also won a coffee maker from Toreba as well. Again, it was a Japan standard 100 V unit. So she tried it out and, it worked great but, she mentioned to me that it was kind of difficult to turn it off at the switch(located on the back) because the unit was fairly hot to the touch. Again I chalked it up to Over-volting. I knew that I didn't want to burn out the coffee maker just as quickly as I did the Sandwich Maker so I starting looking for converters to lower the voltage and, after a little bit of searching, landed on these units here. After looking at a fair amount of the small appliances that I had won, I had see that none of the Watts had gone over 750 so I bought a couple of the 1000 Watt rated unit to give myself a little wiggle room.
So after they arrived, I plugged one into the kitchen and, then her 100V coffee pot into it for her to try the next morning and, the result was instantaneous. It brewed her coffee and, she reported that the coffee pot wasn't too hot to the touch anymore to be able to turn it off. Ok cool, mission accomplished. Even now as I'm writing this, I'm using the Step down unit in tandem with a small 23cm wide electric grill 100V at my computer desk for a small meal. It really does work wonders and, was totally worth the buy. In fact, if I might even end up buying a third to take with me to work so I can use some my small appliances at work to make a quick meal and, back to it.
If you have any plans of traveling to a place that has a 100V standard or you happen to have small appliances that use it, I would highly recommend this.
Now, on the other hand, I haven't tested out the 120V option yet because I haven't had a reason to yet since I can just plug things into a normal outlet.
Thank You for your time.
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SNK Neo Geo AES Approved!!!
I’m starting to go down the Neo Geo rabbit hole and bought myself an AES from Japan because they are far cheaper than buying a US unit. I was concerned about the input voltage requirements for JP electronics as Japan uses 100 volts while US uses 120 volts.Some people say that because the different is minimal (only a 20 volt difference) then it doesn’t really matter, but because these JP retro consoles are not very cheap I didn’t want to take the chance over the minimal cost and hassle of using a step-down transformer.I read lots of reviews and landed on the item (VC-500J). So far in my first week of use it’s been working exactly as expected! I even left the unit plugged in and turned on for a 48hr period and it didn’t get overly hot, just a mild warmth to the touch.I went with the 500 watt unit because I plan to have several JP consoles plugged in at the same time and possibly running at the same time, and I didn’t want to under budget my power requirements. But as you can see from the power monitor device in my pictures that the AES draws about 11 watts (and 13 VA) when turned on and running. So 500 watts with the transformer will allow me plenty of power budget.
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Mis equipos de 100v ahora funcionan seguros en una red de 120v
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