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KitchenAid owners please help!
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jrrowleyws wrote: »Google suggests you would need to use a transformer to alter your mains voltage to 120 V as kitchenaids are country specific. Just because you can buy kitchenaid products in UK does not mean they can tolerate a 240-110 V range.
Also, US mains operates at 60 Hz and ours at 50 Hz. Something a transformer will not alter. Depending on the internal components a lower frequency could cause overheating and eventually failure.
It is not as simple as using a travel adaptor or cutting off the plug!
Exactly this!
You are in effect giving it double the power it needs to operate which explains why it is going at double speed. You need a transformer but even then it could blow. On the flip side I often travel to the US and forget every time that I need to take my US hairdryer because my UK one goes so painfully slow over there it'd be faster drying my hair with a handheld fan
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:A"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid" - Albert Einstein0
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