Will this power supply work on 250V input or how can I make it work?

asalikus

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Hello, I'm planning on building a PC in a month and I need to know if this power supply is suitable to work on 250V input and also at 120V. Can you help me? The power supply I'am looking forward to buy is "Antec High Current Gamer Series HCG-900 900W" If it wouldn't work out, can you suggest me a different power supply for around $130 maybe $20 more. (But dont push it :D) I will be very appreciated!

Here is the link to the power supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371050
 
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Where are you using 250 V? That is not standard anywhere that i know of. Also most of them are rated for like 90-264 V so it should still work fine assuming you are still feeding it single phase power.

asalikus

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I'm going to be using it in Istanbul, Turkey in about 3 years and they are using 250V :(. I hope it will be okay, thanks for your help.

 
From what I have found they use 230 V @ 50Hz which is a normal one and within the PSU's capability. Voltages are reported in a range usually, some in the US refer to the line voltage as 110 V, others 115, and some 120 V, all refer to the same line voltage and it is all close enough since the RMS voltage of the line is generally +/- 5-10 V so that may explain how you heard it as 250 V, someone might be calling it that but not the official technical documents.
 

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Although some places may still call it 110/220V or 125/250V for historic reasons ('standard' voltages were a lot less universal 40+ years ago), most of those run in the 115-120/230-240V range or are progressively standardizing around that.
 

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Thank you very much. I feel better now. :)

 
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I had one more question, can I use a 115V AC Power cord? Or would it need to be a power cord rated to handle 230V?