I have little nice US made tiller.
So far I run step down transformer, but it is a bit heavy.Electric motor is induction type.I wonder if I could use on of following instead of transformer:
1) Use diode. If use only one , then total current may be only half of 240, But never tried on induction motor.

2) Capacitor in series. Should limit amount of energy consumed by motor

3) Thyristor- like a popular dimmer type