[Jack Jarmush]

Hello Group, I bought a Roland Street Cube amp in Paris with an AC
plug for France, i can't see if it will work in the US or not, if i
need to buy a voltage converter or if i just need an adapter. On the
power supply is written:Input : 100 - 240V does mthis mean i can plug
it into 220V or 110V ? thanks for your help.
rob

[Scott Dorsey]

In article ,
Jack Jarmush wrote:
Hello Group, I bought a Roland Street Cube amp in Paris with an AC
plug for France, i can't see if it will work in the US or not, if i
need to buy a voltage converter or if i just need an adapter. On the
power supply is written:Input : 100 - 240V does mthis mean i can plug
it into 220V or 110V ? thanks for your help.

Yes, it has a cheap switching supply in there which can handle any voltage
between 100V and 240V.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Mike Rivers]

Jack Jarmush wrote:

On the
power supply is written:Input : 100 - 240V does mthis mean i can plug
it into 220V or 110V ? thanks for your help.

"Worldwide" power supplies are pretty common these days. It will operate
on US line voltage. All you'll need is an adapter for the power plug.


--
If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach
me he
double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo -- I'm really Mike Rivers
)

[Geoff]

Mike Rivers wrote:
Jack Jarmush wrote:

On the
power supply is written:Input : 100 - 240V does mthis mean i can plug
it into 220V or 110V ? thanks for your help.

"Worldwide" power supplies are pretty common these days. It will
operate on US line voltage. All you'll need is an adapter for the
power plug.

I would strongly suggest NOT getting a plug adaptor - they are notoriously
unreliable. Chop the plug and wire a US one onto the lead. Probably cheaper
than an adaptor too !

geoff

[TimR]

On Jun 22, 7:55*pm, "geoff" wrote:
Mike Rivers wrote:
Jack Jarmush wrote:

*On the
power supply is written:Input : 100 - 240V does mthis mean i can plug
it into 220V or 110V ? thanks for your help.

"Worldwide" power supplies are pretty common these days. It will
operate on US line voltage. All you'll need is an adapter for the
power plug.

I would strongly suggest NOT getting a plug adaptor - they are notoriously
unreliable. Chop the plug and wire a US one onto the lead. Probably cheaper
than an adaptor too !

geoff

I just moved from Germany to the US. I had several dual voltage
appliances. I looked for adaptors, they normally run about a dollar
each. But they weren't available locally. So I did what you suggest,
chop the plug and wire a US one on.

Trouble is, it isn't easy to find a quality US plug. I tried the big
box, I tried the specialty hardware. All they had was cheap
offshore. I would have been better off cannibalizing old applicances
for an existing cord, but making a decent looking splice (in a country
without chocolate blocks) isn't easy either.

[Laurence Payne[_2_]]

On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:47:53 -0700 (PDT), TimR
wrote:

Trouble is, it isn't easy to find a quality US plug. I tried the big
box, I tried the specialty hardware. All they had was cheap
offshore.

Which is doubtless what you'd find molded on to the power lead of a
US-bought appliance! I'm sure the cheap plug will work fine. Save
your patriotism for something that matters :-)

[Scott Dorsey]

TimR wrote:
Trouble is, it isn't easy to find a quality US plug. I tried the big
box, I tried the specialty hardware. All they had was cheap
offshore. I would have been better off cannibalizing old applicances
for an existing cord, but making a decent looking splice (in a country
without chocolate blocks) isn't easy either.

Welcome to America.
Eagle still makes some okay plugs... an electrical supply house might
have to get them for you, though.

The marvelous thing about the IEC connector, though, is that with so
many pieces of equipment you now just replace the (removable) cord.
And that is spreading more and more. Used to be only computers used
it, now almost everything is.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Arny Krueger]

"TimR" wrote in message


Trouble is, it isn't easy to find a quality US plug. I
tried the big box, I tried the specialty hardware. All
they had was cheap offshore. I would have been better
off cannibalizing old applicances for an existing cord,
but making a decent looking splice (in a country without
chocolate blocks) isn't easy either.

IME if you spend $3.50 - $6.00 at Lowes or HD, you can get a Hubble or some
such that is really pretty nice. Of course, then your high fashion appliance
looks like it came right off the factory shop floor, but whatever floats
your boat!

Maybe you need to try a better grade of big box store, or know where to shop
within, or simply adjust to the fact that U.S. electrical hardware marches
to a different beat than that in EU or UK.

FWIW, we had widespread use of electricity first, while Europe had not so
much until after the Second War. So you got to rebuild on the base of what
we found that worked. The US consumer power system would be a different
thing if we started from scratch last week. Lots of hidebound tradition.
But, it works.

It seems like the long term trend will be less power use per function and
more wireless. What I know is that I used to buy batteries in the onsies
and twosies, but now I buy them by the 10's and dozens.

[Peter Larsen[_3_]]

Arny Krueger wrote:

| FWIW, we had widespread use of electricity first, while Europe had
| not so much until after the Second War.

The local perspective on our history over here looks different ...

Kind regards

Peter Larsen

[TimR]

On Jun 28, 8:32*am, "Arny Krueger" wrote:
"TimR" wrote in message



Trouble is, it isn't easy to find a quality US plug. *I
tried the big box, I tried the specialty hardware. *All
they had was cheap offshore. *I would have been better
off cannibalizing old applicances for an existing cord,
but making a decent looking splice (in a country without
chocolate blocks) isn't easy either.

IME if you spend $3.50 - $6.00 at Lowes or HD, you can get a Hubble or some
such that is really pretty nice. Of course, then your high fashion appliance
looks like it came right off the factory shop floor, but whatever floats
your boat!

Yes, that's sort of true. Home Depot had a couple of nice ones, and I
don't mind paying what they're worth. But check out the size - those
industrial quality ones won't fit on a power strip, nor allow two
plugs in a normal outlet.

Sure, the cheap ones work on the appliance they came with. They're
molded in place with automatic machinery. Laurence, it's not
misplaced patriotism, it's because I've replaced several, and they are
difficult to get on securely. They don't disassemble the way they
used to. You just pry them apart and jam them together. Try it
yourself sometime.

[Arny Krueger]

"TimR" wrote in message

On Jun 28, 8:32 am, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:
"TimR" wrote in message



Trouble is, it isn't easy to find a quality US plug. I
tried the big box, I tried the specialty hardware. All
they had was cheap offshore. I would have been better
off cannibalizing old applicances for an existing cord,
but making a decent looking splice (in a country without
chocolate blocks) isn't easy either.

IME if you spend $3.50 - $6.00 at Lowes or HD, you can
get a Hubble or some such that is really pretty nice. Of
course, then your high fashion appliance looks like it
came right off the factory shop floor, but whatever
floats your boat!

Yes, that's sort of true. Home Depot had a couple of
nice ones, and I don't mind paying what they're worth.


But check out the size - those industrial quality ones
won't fit on a power strip, nor allow two plugs in a
normal outlet.

I don't what you're talking about. I have here two fairly typical 15 amp
plugs (i.e., male):

Hubbel P/N HBL5266C

That have about the same footprint as just the sockets on a standard wall
outlet's sockets. There's ample space to use both outlets.

[Richard Crowley]

"Peter Larsen" wrote ...
Arny Krueger wrote:
| FWIW, we had widespread use of electricity first, while Europe had
| not so much until after the Second War.

The local perspective on our history over here looks different ...

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0809/kyungmook/km2.html#V

[Arny Krueger]

"Richard Crowley" wrote in message

"Peter Larsen" wrote ...
Arny Krueger wrote:
FWIW, we had widespread use of electricity first, while
Europe had not so much until after the Second War.

The local perspective on our history over here looks
different ...

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0809/kyungmook/km2.html#V


Interesting article that seems to support my claims.


During WW2 the antagonists bombed big chunks of Europe literally back into
the Medieval age. Meanwhile, during the 1930s and in following years the US
built large successful power projects such as the TVA, Hoover and Coulee
dams which turned out to be strategic as they facilitated the fabrication of
the A-Bombs that won the war with Japan. Needless to say, unlike Europe, we
didn't bomb our big power plants, dams, and networks off the face of the
earth.

Since our country had one ideology and common laws, language, standards and
government from sea to sea, we jumped way ahead in terms of building large
power networks. We have any number of states whose wealth, land, and
population equals or surpasses most European countries, but we've not had
customs booths and language barriers between them.

[Peter Larsen[_3_]]

Richard Crowley wrote:

"Peter Larsen" wrote ...

Arny Krueger wrote:
FWIW, we had widespread use of electricity first, while Europe had
not so much until after the Second War.

The local perspective on our history over here looks different ...

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0809/kyungmook/km2.html#V

Germany is not all of Europe. Also the Electricity monopolies were described
by Lenin in 1911.


Kind regards

Peter Larsen

[Peter Larsen[_3_]]

Richard Crowley wrote:

"Peter Larsen" wrote ...
Arny Krueger wrote:

FWIW, we had widespread use of electricity first, while Europe had
not so much until after the Second War.

The local perspective on our history over here looks different ...

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0809/kyungmook/km2.html#V

You might want to read up on for instance electrified public transport over
here. Or on how come there was heavy water to be found in Norway.

Kind regards

Peter Larsen

[Arny Krueger]

"Peter Larsen" wrote in message

Richard Crowley wrote:

"Peter Larsen" wrote ...
Arny Krueger wrote:

FWIW, we had widespread use of electricity first,
while Europe had not so much until after the Second
War.

The local perspective on our history over here looks
different ...

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0809/kyungmook/km2.html#V

You might want to read up on for instance electrified
public transport over here. Or on how come there was
heavy water to be found in Norway.

Apparently it wasn't very good heavy water... ;-)

[Peter Larsen[_3_]]

Arny Krueger wrote:

"Peter Larsen" wrote in message

Richard Crowley wrote:

"Peter Larsen" wrote ...
Arny Krueger wrote:

FWIW, we had widespread use of electricity first,
while Europe had not so much until after the Second
War.

The local perspective on our history over here looks
different ...

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0809/kyungmook/km2.html#V

You might want to read up on for instance electrified
public transport over here. Or on how come there was
heavy water to be found in Norway.

Apparently it wasn't very good heavy water... ;-)

Dunno, it went to the bottom of the lake and stayed there almost unassisted
..... must have been the best heavy water on the market then. It tested OK
when a drum was salvaged by the Discovery Channel. The liquidity might of
course have been better if it was floated on the market, but the buyer was
quite insistent on a monopoly. And it was available because of Rjukan Falls
Powerplant, probably a part of Norsk Hydro.

Kind regards

Peter Larsen