Originally posted by @trev33
Do you use American or uk plug sockets in Canada?
American. I used to live in Jerusalem and found they use 220 VAC and 50 hertz. ATT I had recording equipment, tape recorders and the 50 Hertz part screwed up the speed of the reels, the motors being very sensitive to the frequency of the AC power, so if you had for instance, 30 hertz, the reels would go half speed, so if you set it at 15 IPS, it would really be doing 7.5 inches/second. I got around that by getting a machinist to make a spindle that would make the thing work at proper speed in a 50 hertz power world.
Of course now, with incredible digital recorders all that is out the window, power can be anything from 90 volts to 250 volts and 25 hertz to 90 Hertz all automatically compensated.
There. Does that divert the subject well enough?🙂