Originally Posted by
jason8612
I was looking at TH-42PH9UK which is a 42 plasma monitor. works on ntsc and pal. for about 1000 at costco or tigerdirect. I was wondering since its 120v 50-60hz 345watt would a 500watt step down converter work? are they noisy? also I was going to ship it with me on the direct flight over. should there be any issues if I left it in the box? its going to poland EU. I don't wabt to buy one in poland as they are over 5000usd for the same thing.
I have exactly this model of Plasma which I bought in the USA and imported to eastern europe.
It is labelled as 120v only but works fine at 220v without any transformer. I discovered this by accident when it arrived because somebody plugged it in without looking at the label. I am not surprised because they manufacture these for the world market and really do not want to worry about different manufacturing runs and inventories for 110v and 220v. But of course I cannot give any guarantee.