Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted February 08, 2017 05:59 AM
Is this an external transformer you are buying as an adapter?
If you buy the 500VA one, it will certainly run cooler and be less likely to fail, but then again is will be larger and heavier.
If the machine is 200VA and you run it with a 200VA transformer, you are driving with the gas pedal pushed all the way down on the floor: always nice to have some capacity to spare!
The input voltage select on the machine is a tradeoff: with 100V you will get a brighter lamp, 125 a dimmer one that you will need to change less often. The electronics inside the machine will also run cooler and last longer with the 125V setting. Given the age it already is, I'd be tempted more in this direction if it were me.
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