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Originally Posted by captainmoody
My old CTC-5 is now in the capable hands of Eckhard Etzold and it will be going through a complete restoration shortly!
It made the trip to Germany intact with no damage, here is a picture he sent me of it displaying a local program there.
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He must be using a TV standards converter, as Germany is a PAL country, (or SECAM if he's in what was East Germany) and the TV expects NTSC. Different scan rates and differing color encoding methods.
Another problem would be the powerline. Aside from the obvious voltage difference (220V vs 120V) there is the issue of the line frequency, 50 vs 60 Hz. As higher frequencies allow for smaller transformer core, its power transformer may get unhappy on 50Hz. Core saturation may start, making it overheat. As the transformer is likely designed to accept up to 130V 60Hz before saturation starts to kick in, it should be able to take 50/60 of that on 50Hz. About 108V, maybe 110, which would be the low end of American voltage supply. Something to look out for. If the transformer gets very
hot, this may be doing it.