[access-uk] Re: longer power cable for Victor Classic?

  • From: "jim o'brien" <jim.taggart@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:38:05 -0000

sorry guys, might have got the sizwe of the jack plug wrong but it certainly has a jack plug on the end of it. don't shout at me guys it is xmas after all. *smile* ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

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Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 12:20 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: longer power cable for Victor Classic?



If that's the case Jim, then there must be a transformer
somewhere, since you sure as heck don't put 240 volts
through a 3.5mm jack.

If there is a transformer, there will be a mains cable going
into that, and that may well be a figure of 8 type.

George.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jim o'brien
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 12:06 PM
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: longer power cable for Victor
Classic?

hi ray and Billy, i understand what billy is saying. i have
the similar
cable. it is a normal 3.5 jack plug at the end of the cable.
it just happens
to bend into an l shape.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 11:09 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: longer power cable for Victor
Classic?



Billie, an "L shaped adaptor with a pin"?  Surely more

than one pin?

Can you feel some small oblong holes in the L shaped end?

Or, can you

feel some pins in the hole the L shaped thingy goes into?

On my Classic, the receptor for the lead is situated at

the back of

the machine with two thin rectanglular pins  within the

socket

receptor and the lead with a moulded plastic plug on it

going via a

couple of metres of mains lead to a thirteen amp plug.

You can only

place this sort of plug in the machine one way round, with

angled

corners on the plug going towards the top as you push it

home.


All this said, Ive long lost track of the original two pin

plug that

went into my classic, and am using the sort of lead that

comes with

kettles and other appliances, such as some audio

equimpment.


As Andy says, the simplest thing is to get to Maplin's or

somewhere

like that with this lead and see if they've a longer one,

or simply

get an extention mains lead.

Pity is we cannot easily excange pictures on this list,

otherwise the

description of the lead would not be in doubt.  Does

puzzle me that

people keep refereing to a figure of eight lead, cus mind

aint one of

those!  Whichever it is it's not complicated and I think

you'd have to

try hard to blow the thing up!

Hope you get it sorted.



From Ray
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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 22 December 2007 4:10PM
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: longer power cable for Victor

Classic?



Ray, I'm really not explaining this problem too well.

I'm now sitting with the power cable in my hand.

One end has an ordinary 13 amp plug which plugs into a

power mains

supply on
the wall.
The other end has it looks like an L shaped adaptor with a

pin, which

shoves
into a female connector on the side of the Victor Classic.

I'm now loosing the will to live, come on and beam me up

Scottie,

Billy

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 1:38 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: longer power cable for Victor

Classic?




Darren, Billy and others, this thread gets stranger by

the day.  It

sounds to me as if Billy might have an American or

Canadian mains

lead

with his Classic as the two pin plug he describes is

common with US

designed equipment.  Obviously that could be plugged into

a

shaver-type adaptor, that's if I'm right.

My RNIB supplied Victor Classic player came with a mains

lead

terminated in a 13 amp plug, no doubt with a 3 amp fues

in the plug.

The two pin plug socket on mine is physically in design

the kettle

standard sort of appliance leaed, but the Victor Classic

isn't

earthed, as I think is standard in North America, so

carries two

pins,

not three.  (This doesn't effect safety folks, so don't

get

concerned

on that score!)  As I've said, you can plug in a standard

kettle

type

appliance leadwhere the earth connection goes simply

unused and no

harm at all in that.

This doesn't solve Billy's problem really as I think it

is the

length

of the mains lead he's concerned about.  As already

suggested the

best

and easiest solution is the ubiquitous extention lead.

No end of

these available at Maplin and the like, in two metre

lengths, which

should be enough.

Must say at the end of an over long post that, for me,

the Victor

Stream with a good portable speaker is the better

solution for me

now.

Much more portable, which is why its going with me to my

sister's

over

christmas.

Cheers,

From Ray
I can be contacted off-list at:
mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
Darren Brewer


Well, it certainly doesn't require anywhere near 15 amps.

The player

probably draws around an amp at most, so you can get away

with using

quite a
long extension cable which would be the most

straightforward

solution.


Darren.

----- Original Message -----
From: "TrueBlue & Proud" <billy72@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 9:21 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: longer power cable for Victor

Classic?




Ray, I'm not sure how to explain this, but I've just had

a look at

the

power supply cable.
The power supply has a 15 amp plug on one end & a kind

of l shaped

connector, which pushes into a female socket.

Don't think I explained this too well, but hope it gives

you an

Idea,

Billy


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 4:34 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: longer power cable for Victor

Classic?




Hi, and not wanting to throw a spanner in the works or

complicate

things, but my Victor Classic uses a kettle lead type

of plug on

the

Victor side, but with two pins.  If you have a three

pin plug, (or

socket, strictly speaking) to plug into the machine

then this

doesn't

matter of course as the earth connection simply doesn't

get used.


All that said, maybe the later Classics do indeed have

a figure of

eight lead, and if so, then of course ignore this

message.  Simply

that with my Classic I use any old lead around the

place to plug

it

into the mains;  and after all this time I certainly

have to as

the

battery is absollutely useless now!

Cheers,

From Ray
I can be contacted off-list at:
mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
TrueBlue & Proud


George, this is certainly the cable in question. I'll

get my

daughter

to go
onto Ebay later on, and try get it, thanks,
Billy


----- Original Message -----
From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:54 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: longer power cable for Victor

Classic?



Billy, Am I right in thinking the main cable has one of
these 2 pin connectors on the opposite end from the 13

amp

plug?  If so, they are known generally as "Figure of 8
connectors".  I've hunted again, and found a 5 metre

one on

E-Bay from a reseller.  £4.99 if you "buy now".

Here's the Tiny URL following by the longer one.

http://tinyurl.com/2zkekj



http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LONG-FIGURE-OF-FIG-8-MAINS-POWER-CABLE



-LEAD-5M-5-METRE_W0QQitemZ230190927498QQihZ013QQcategoryZ116



852QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting


George.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of TrueBlue

&

Proud
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 10:24 AM
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: longer power cable for Victor
Classic?

George, as usual much sense, the only drawback with
extensions is that I am
wanting longer cable for going on holiday, and the

power

socket is quite a
distance from the bed.
Maybe, using the battery function is the only solution,
Billy


----- Original Message -----
From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 10:04 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: longer power cable for Victor
Classic?


Hi Billy,

I have a feeling that there are electrical regulations

in

place which prevent suppliers from providing equipment

with

mains cables above 2 - 3 metres.  Indeed I've just

spent the

last 20 minutes or so going through some of our

supplier

catalogues, and have not been able to find anything
suitable.

I suggest a normal extension cable might be your best

bet.


George.

-----Original Message-----
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&

Proud
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 9:36 AM
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: longer power cable for Victor
Classic?

Ron, me thinks about 5 meeters or so,
Billy


----- Original Message -----
From: "ron sears" <r.sears1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 8:56 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: longer power cable for Victor
Classic?



Billy, how long a cable do you want?

Ron
----- Original Message -----
From: "TrueBlue & Proud" <billy72@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 8:45 AM
Subject: [access-uk] longer power cable for Victor

Classic?



hi guys, I'm needing to move my Victor Classic from

one

position to

another,
and to achieve this, I must have a longer power supply

cable. The one

powering my player at the moment is not long enough to

do

the job. I'm

wondering if RNIB Talking Book Service could or will

provide me with a

longer power cable?,
Billy




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