{"id":777,"date":"2008-08-02T16:42:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T23:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=777"},"modified":"2008-08-13T16:50:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T23:50:42","slug":"a171-step-down-transformer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"#a171 :: Step-down transformer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/080208.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/080208-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ENLARGE\" title=\"ENLARGE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-778\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/080208-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/080208-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/080208.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Electricity surges out of British outlets at a blistering 220 volts &#8211; too powerful for western computers.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m blogging this from my Mac G4 laptop &#8211; a 6-year-old bulletproof box with a trim little power transformer built right in &#8211; my other work laptop (a Dell) requires a separate transformer to tame London voltage down to a palatable 110 volts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookstone.com\/store\/product.asp?pid=223578\">This thick brick<\/a> does the job, <a href=\"http:\/\/100mgviagra.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">site<\/a>  but at 5 pounds it&#8217;s so heavy it falls out of the outlet without me resting it on an updended drink glass on the floor for support. What the hell, it works, and at $25, not too bad a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, you could brain someone with it if need be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity surges out of British outlets at a blistering 220 volts &#8211; too powerful for western computers. While I&#8217;m blogging this from my Mac G4 laptop &#8211; a 6-year-old bulletproof box with a trim little power transformer built right in &#8211; my other work laptop (a Dell) requires a separate transformer to tame London voltage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tool","category-weapon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}