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I moved to Belgium from the UK a couple of years ago and buy all of my power tools on my trips back to the UK as they are much cheaper!!!
However my hammer drill died last week mid house renovation and while I'm able to swap some of the work around I need to buy a drill... after recovering from the shock of looking at the prices over here I opted for a MAKITA HR2470T and bought it on line... it arrived in two days! Super fast delivery no problems there... only problem was I'd selected the 110v version not the 240v version... AAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!
My fault entirely but now I need to work out if it's makes sense to try and exchange it (if the company I bought it from are willing to do this) taking into account the cost of two lots of postal charges or buy a site transformer instead.
Problem is I'm not sure what size I need... I'm guessing that I might need a 3.3KVA 230V Portable Site Tool Transformer 2x 16A 110V Outputs http://www.amazon.co.uk/Made-3-3KVA...ef=sr_1_2?s=diy&ie=UTF8&qid=1342121885&sr=1-2 but I don't really want to lash out cash on guesswork so any advice greatly appreciated
Cheers
However my hammer drill died last week mid house renovation and while I'm able to swap some of the work around I need to buy a drill... after recovering from the shock of looking at the prices over here I opted for a MAKITA HR2470T and bought it on line... it arrived in two days! Super fast delivery no problems there... only problem was I'd selected the 110v version not the 240v version... AAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!
My fault entirely but now I need to work out if it's makes sense to try and exchange it (if the company I bought it from are willing to do this) taking into account the cost of two lots of postal charges or buy a site transformer instead.
Problem is I'm not sure what size I need... I'm guessing that I might need a 3.3KVA 230V Portable Site Tool Transformer 2x 16A 110V Outputs http://www.amazon.co.uk/Made-3-3KVA...ef=sr_1_2?s=diy&ie=UTF8&qid=1342121885&sr=1-2 but I don't really want to lash out cash on guesswork so any advice greatly appreciated
Cheers