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| Originally Posted by Ian Harris As for quality...this is a bit of a gamble, ... I believe the stuff I am buying is pretty near to US / American standards of construction, but it definitely has 220 volt power supplies (which suit Europe fine, but sadly not us in the UK). The gear I am buying does not currently have a formal UK importer, so is not available with 240 volt freindly supply. If its good stuff, I'll upgrade components in due course...if its not, I'll live and learn and stick it on ebay with a suitably realistic description. |
I think you missed our earlier point ...
the uk and europe came to an agreement several years ago to all change our mains voltages, and we met in the middle at 230V.
So all of europe and the british isles have run at 230Vac for quite a while.
What you will find of course is that local supply voltage regulation can be variable
UK and germany for instance are better than spain and italy.
So ... if you know people in europe using these valves ok, then they _should_ also be fine here.
The caveat emptor is still there - as you always need to know how much overvoltge a power device will cope with (P = Vsquared / R)
btw
the 'CE' mark on a device which is mains powered _should_ be your guarantee.
If the valves are not CE marked, then it is my understanding that they are not legal in europe (or whatever)