goshawk writes:
>you should be able to get that sort of transformer from radioshack, it is a
>transformer you will need rather than an adapter as your voltage is half of
>what we have here in the u.k.

        That is quite right, but the plugs are different, also.

        I really don't know what modern British power plugs look like,
but I think there was a push several years ago to adopt the European
Common Market standard of AC power plug all over Western Europe.  That
meant each country would sell adaptors to retrofit Common Market plugs
to pre-existing installations, but new installations were supposed to
be standard everywhere in Western Europe.

        I haven't any idea how well that all worked out, but I hope
things are more standard now than they used to be.  European power is
the same 50-HZ 240-Volt standard in every country, even the former
Soviet block.

        If I am wrong, somebody please set us straight.

Martin McCormick