Your peak current may be down just a bit but good chance the transformer will be more efficient so it ends up a wash. As a designer of 50 hz transformers we tried to use as few primary turns as possible so saturation voltage was down a bit. This was so we could get good performance at 60 hz. 60 hz transformer on 50 Hz the saturantion voltage comes down by X 5/6. You need almost 20 % more primary turns to get the same performance on 50 Hz.
A 50 Hz transformer on 60 Hz would have no problem with a step up tap on a variac.
Thanks Frank
(and Tom, and Shane)....
I thought that was the way it worked, but needed a little reassurance....
Was thinking of getting one to see what happens...
The voltage might be a touch high... but I can easily stick a transformer from and old line regulator ahead of it.... (steps down from 120 to 115, 110 etc and up to 125 I think)
But whatever, for $50 at that voltage/current rating, even if de-rated 10%.... Still would be usefull for something.....