Electronics Forum / Equipment / May 2005

I have an automatic wash bay that is being shipped in from Italy.  I've
received the custom computer circuits already for testing, and they are
powered at 230V 50HZ and draw ~1A  X 2 devices.

These circuits are in a closed box and include a badge card reader, a
RS485 -> RS232 chip, various specialized computer chips, a lamp rated
at 50HZ, several relays including Omron MY2 220/240VAC (S) and a row of
other relays that I cannot identify, a pizzo for sound, several circuit
breakers, and a Telemecanique ABL7 RM1202 power converter that takes
100-240VAC and turns it into 12VDC.

Obviously the DC circuits are not a problem, but my concern is the
relays, and other potentially frequency sensitive parts.  The AC input
junction directly feeds to several of these circuits.

While I am tempted to just buy a 110V -> 230V AC-AC converter, this is
not cheap hardware.  I would rather purchase something that both
converts 110V to 230V and 60HZ to 50HZ.

I am not an electronics guy.  I am a computer programmer.  While I have
some electronics classes under by belt, I would want to purchase such
equipment.  But I don't know where to look.  Google searching has not
found me anything.

Any links?

Edwin Davidson