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Originally Posted by wa2ise
Sounds like me when I paid a wad for this Aussie tube radio, a Tasma 1001 Baby.  Love the looks. And the little map of Australia in the center of teh dial is cool. And the fact that I didn't spend much on old radios in the past several months let myself spend the bucks. It was already restored, though I replaced a resistor to improve reception a little (a screen supply to the 6A8 and the IF tube drifted high, feeding too low a voltage and made local strong stations distort too much). It's happy with American 240V@60Hz, which I ran a special circuit from the breaker panel to a very old American made Aussie pattern outlet  |
If memory serves, you can easily run 50Hz equipment on 60Hz. The problems occur when you try to do it the other way around - the 60Hz transformer doesn't need to be as beefy for a given wattage, and is incapable of producing sufficient power at 50Hz.