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Power adapter
Since I cannot find any information of the ouput voltage of the adapter, so does the power adapter shipped with Netgear Orbi support 220v/50Hz power network (non US standard)?
timch wrote:
Petey, I guess you mean voltage and current......... Perhaps you should be reading up..... ;)
um amperage = current
voltage is irrelevent as all new power supplies are 110-240v these days
wattage is a calculation of voltage and amps
so i stand by what i said
Frequency DOES matter when it comes to ANY "transformered" devices. Overheating and/or burnout can occur if 60 Hz rated devices are used on 50 Hz current, as there is not enough iron in the induction cores, and the devices overheat. With "switching" power supplies, there is less of an issue. The power supplies SHOULD have a voltage/current/frequency input rating printed thereon.
Finally, someone understands what Frequency means
ImNoOne wrote:
Frequency DOES matter when it comes to ANY "transformered" devices. Overheating and/or burnout can occur if 60 Hz rated devices are used on 50 Hz current, as there is not enough iron in the induction cores, and the devices overheat. With "switching" power supplies, there is less of an issue. The power supplies SHOULD have a voltage/current/frequency input rating printed thereon.
and they all do and almost all have 110-240 and 50 to 60 hz so they are one transformer that can work world wide with just a change in the pun out
Oh dear, you are missing the point. The thing that matters is output voltage and current. Maybe you do need to read those books Petey!
Actually, you are BOTH right!! :) The "ultimate truth" IS VDC to whatever is "supplied" by a power source with SUFFICIENT current to meet the needs of the receiving device. This translates into "power" or VA (volt-amperes), which is commonly known as "Watts". That's why a Van de Graff generator, producing hundreds of thousands (if not MILLIONS) of volts will not NORMALLY electrocute someone...there is not enough CURRENT (read "power")to produce the capacity to kill.
On the "flip side", how one GETS to the requisite voltage/current is ALSO important. If the "electrical translating device" (transforment/switching supply/battery) cannot PRODUCE the requisite energy, then it will self-destruct. THIS is where "frequency" becomes important. The lower the frequency at which an iron-based device (read, "core") is asked to perform, the more IRON it takes to transfer the energy required. Thus, the device can self-destruct if improperly constructed. "Switching power supplies" operate at elevated frequencies and thus, they require less iron in their construction, producing energy "spikes" that are then rectified and regualated to the properties required by the device supplied.
I'm too old to quote/recall the mathematics of the whole sheebang, but that's about it in a "nutshell". :)