Posted By
Chicken
on 2016-02-02
06:13:02
 |  Re: Want to Buy: Commodore 1551
A step up transformer will work. Even if it's not taking care of the 50Hz/60Hz issue. This has been discussed here a long time ago and members actually did this (so it's not vague "in theory" ranting  ).
You can skip the first postings and scroll down to my post from 2010-08-21 17:48:21
http://plus4world.powweb.com/forum/20008
There I compiled all the information you need from previous posts.
However, exchanging the internal PSU is the "cleaner" way to make the 1551 work. It's really not difficult to do and if you already have the 1541 PSU you don't need to spend money on the step up transformer.
There are various members who did this succesfully. Here's a n example:
http://plus4world.powweb.com/forum/23284
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