Hi, Just come back from overseas and brought back a few compact fluros that are much brighter than the ones in oz. Also they have a dome on them and look like normal globes which saves you damaging the glass spiral inside.
Anyway of course they work with a 100v step down xformer but Im wondering is there a cheaper smaller and lighter way to do this?
I did notice they sell international travellers mini xformers that dont have wirewound xformers but rather an scr that chops the 240v sine wave in half - enabling you to run 100v hairdriers , chargers etc on 240v.
Can I just feed the top half of 240v sine wave to run these 100v compact fluros? I imagine they have their own solid state inverter inside them..
Any ideas appreciated.