Hi all,
I received many excellent replies to this ( and a few from people who
thought I was joking.....maybe I didn't sound serious ;-) ).
It turns out that there is a difference between Southern Hemishere and
Northern Hemispere monitors which is necessary since the earth's magnetic
field is directed differently depending on which hemishere you are in.
Several people suggested turning a monitor upside down to see what the
effects of using it in the southern hemishere would be. I tried this with
a Sun 20" monitor and sure enough the colors all changed drastically (
blues turned to bright red!!).
The power in Australia is 240V 50HZ and it appears that most sun equipment
can handle this automatically or by moving a switch on the power supply.
Thanks to the following people for answering my questions:
Andrew Maddox
Russ Poffenberger
Mark C Olson
Rodney Wines
Syed Zaeem Hosain
Kevin Sheehan/Uniq
David Evans
Rachel Polanskis
Paul Markham
Renzo Toma
Brett Lymn
James Ashton
Jon Wright
Mark Ashley
My original post is included below.
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On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Scott F. Woods wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I need to purchase some sun ultra 10 workstations that will eventually be
> located in Australia. I have noticed that sun has different part numbers
> for Northern and Southern Hemisphere monitors. My questions are:
>
> Will a nothern hemisphere monitor work in Australia?
>
> If so, would there be a performance disadvantage from a souther hemisphere
> monitor?
>
> Does anyone know the voltage and freq. of power in Australia?
>
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Scott
>
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> | Scott Woods phone: 770-497-2948 |
> | CAD Engineer email: sfw@adc.idt.com |
> | Integrated Device Technology, Inc. |
> | 11555 Medlock Bridge Rd. Suite #170 |
> | Duluth, GA 30097 |
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