Step Down Transformer

[mark jackson]

Looking for a step down transformer. I've been told the Dick Smith type aren't strong enough. This is for a French machine from 1959 which has the 110 volt transformer.

[Retropin]

Ebay is by far the cheapest place for these... you can get away with just a 1A but its tight.... 2A is more than enough for an old woodrail.
Jaycar do a 5A and i have 4 sometimes 5 machines plugged into this.. its never tripped ( has overload protection), but at $230 its an expensive option.

Im curious though... why would a French machine have 110V??? Whole of Europe is standard 240V

[mark jackson]

.....You got me there Gav. I have no idea why this machine is the way it is. It's a very strange 4 player critter called 'The King' which to me looks like a copy of Gottlieb's 2 and 4 players from that time ( like Texan and Sweet Sioux etc)

[Retropin]

THE KING!!!!! By Rouen of France????  Is it the one that was on Ebay sometime back??? I had an interest in it.

A French machine that was intended for US market perhaps??  Peculiar!!!


I have a guy up the road to me that came into my shop... says he has a French machine from 50's with Palm trees all over the BG... ive offered to go fix it for him ( lights dont work) just so i can see what the hell it is

[ddstoys]

The riviera also had a 110v transformer and so does marathon maybe europe used 110v up until a certain time?????

[Retropin]

Seems you are right... France was all once 110 - 115V but at 50hz not 60 as in States