The Sony DVWA500 Digital Betacam recorder cost thousands in its day, and they can still fetch a good price today. Ours is rated for 100V AC as it was from the Japanese market. So would it be a good idea to connect 240V UK mains to it? Will it go bang? Has it been modified already? Is it so over engineered that it just works? Or is it really quite OK for 240V operation despite the label?

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00:00 Introduction and start work
02:44 Mains input and breaker
05:14 Get power supply out
08:30 Look at PCB
10:23 Maybe it is 240V after all
11:00 Reassemble
11:36 Oh no!
14:21 Breaker, breaker
15:28 Test and conclusion