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To be fair I'd be quite a bit more relaxed working on 120v. Very supprised these machines don't run on dc internally?


In the older ones, it's almost all AC. One giant transformer, a couple of different voltages. Possibly with "high tap", a way to compensate for wall current with lower than expected voltages. The past is another country.




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