If you need some reasonable current, use a good sized isolation transformer (110 – 110) and wire the secondary to one line. If you have the polarity right, you will now have a 220V auto transformer (if the polarity is wrong you get nothing :)). Works fine for me.
From: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com [mailto:neonixie-l@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of jb-electronics Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 2:21 PM To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: [neonixie-l] OT: Reasonable quality step-up converter? Hi folks, This is a bit off-topic, but I hope somebody can help. As some of you know I live in Canada, but I am originally from Germany. Most of my tools can be switched between 110V/220V input, so that's fine, except for my soldering station. It is a Weller 40W digital station that I have had for years and I do not want to buy a new one. The problem: it only has a 220V input. So I was looking for a step-up converter, and I was surprised by the crappy quality of almost everything out there. If you look on Amazon or Ebay, there are a lot of types very similar to this one here: * http://www.amazon.com/Instapark-ITU-500-Voltage-Converter-Transformer/dp/B07B9F87HG/ Usually around USD 50 with quite a few negative reviews (typically around 10%) of people saying it eventually almost burned up their house. Not interested! So I was trying to find something reasonable, which turned out to be a bit more difficult that I had originally anticipated. I found these here: * http://www.kriegermfg.com/products/voltage-transformers/ Do you think these are reliable? Or where else can I find something of decent quality? I am looking for something around 300-400W. Many thanks and best wishes from Canada Jens -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> . To post to this group, send email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com <mailto:neonixie-l@googlegroups.com> . To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/a6d204b1-56b7-eea3-4ea4-5b943ae78525%40jb-electronics.de <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/a6d204b1-56b7-eea3-4ea4-5b943ae78525%40jb-electronics.de?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/004e01d46bd8%24c4328460%244c978d20%24%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
