Ray, please tell us more about the Victor Stream, Billy----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 1:52 PMSubject: [access-uk] Battery life of DAISY Cd players - (waslonger power cable for Victor Classic?)
I'll add quickly for those interested that many a conversation on DAISY players has been had on the RNIB ARena list and the concensus there is that the Plextor PTN1 is the bst player going in terms of battery life and usability. The trouble is that although RNIB supply these players to listeners you cannot be sure of getting a Plextor if you send your old player back. The Victor Stream has changed things quite a bit now and many are beginning to see this as a viable alternative to the Cd players, albeit you have to transfer books for reading. It may well be RNIB isn't altogether happy with this solution that many are adopting now but given the seeming refusal of RNIB to upgrade machines supplied by themselves, well, its one reason people are turning to this alternative. In fact the Stream already looks to be heralding a new style of book listening and a move away from CD. this, as well as internet based methods. Maybe the oldies will be left with their aging CD players? Cheers, From Ray I can be contacted off-list at: mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- Darren Brewer Subject: [access-uk] Re: longer power cable for Victor Classic? Hi Ray yes you are right, the transformer has been taken out of the unit and put into the plug. Unfortunately, the old battery problem still remains and I always used my player connected to the mains as it would only last 10 minutes on battery power. Darren. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 12:52 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: longer power cable for Victor Classic?Think its safest for me to conclude that my Victor Classic is very old, so the socketry on it is not the same as being described here. It sounds as if the power supply has been taken outside of the main case now possibly in line with the near universal practice ofin-leadpower supplies, or those damned wall warts. I speculate that this may be to accomodate a larger internal battery and thus improve battery life, which was always absolutely patheticonmy Victor Classic. All this said, seems to me by far the simplest solution is a short mains extention lead, but I'll bring my contributions to this extrordinary thread to a close now. Promise! Cheers, From Ray I can be contacted off-list at: mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- Darren Brewer Subject: [access-uk] Re: longer power cable for Victor Classic? Hi Ray Well like I've just said on my victor classic there is an AC adaptor with what looks like a 3.5mm jack plug, only it is not the same as yougetwith headphones. It's more of a mini phono plug. But saying that you can still get a male to female extension lead for such connectors. Darren. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 12:23 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: longer power cable for Victor Classic?Well, never thought this could get into the realms of dangerous,butsounds very much like a headphone jack we're talking about here.Now,don't go trying to connect that one to the mains! Yes, my Victor Classic does have a mini-jack headphone socket ontheright hand side(CD slot facing you). The mains socket is at thebackof the machine. They haven't changed these players that muchoverthepast five years? , have they? From Ray I can be contacted off-list at: mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- jim o'brien 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. itjusthappens to bend into an l shape. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 onepin?Can you feel some small oblong holes in the L shaped end? Or, canyoufeel some pins in the hole the L shaped thingy goes into? On my Classic, the receptor for the lead is situated at the backofthe machine with two thin rectanglular pins within the socket receptor and the lead with a moulded plastic plug on it going viaacouple of metres of mains lead to a thirteen amp plug. You canonlyplace 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 plugthatwent into my classic, and am using the sort of lead that comeswithkettles and other appliances, such as some audio equimpment. As Andy says, the simplest thing is to get to Maplin's orsomewherelike that with this lead and see if they've a longer one, orsimplyget an extention mains lead. Pity is we cannot easily excange pictures on this list, otherwisethedescription of the lead would not be in doubt. Does puzzle methatpeople keep refereing to a figure of eight lead, cus mind aint oneofthose! Whichever it is it's not complicated and I think you'dhavetotry hard to blow the thing up! Hope you get it sorted. From Ray I can be contacted off-list at: mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of TrueBlue & Proud Sent: 22 December 2007 4:10PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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,whichshoves 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 ----- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.Itsounds to me as if Billy might have an American or Canadian mainsleadwith his Classic as the two pin plug he describes is common withUSdesigned 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 theplug.The two pin plug socket on mine is physically in design thekettlestandard sort of appliance leaed, but the Victor Classic isn't earthed, as I think is standard in North America, so carries twopins,not three. (This doesn't effect safety folks, so don't getconcernedon that score!) As I've said, you can plug in a standard kettletypeappliance leadwhere the earth connection goes simply unused andnoharm at all in that. This doesn't solve Billy's problem really as I think it is thelengthof the mains lead he's concerned about. As already suggested thebestand easiest solution is the ubiquitous extention lead. No end of these available at Maplin and the like, in two metre lengths,whichshould 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 menow.Much more portable, which is why its going with me to my sister'soverchristmas. 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. Theplayerprobably draws around an amp at most, so you can get away withusingquite a long extension cable which would be the most straightforwardsolution.Darren. ----- Original Message ----- From: "TrueBlue & Proud" <billy72@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 lookatthepower supply cable. The power supply has a 15 amp plug on one end & a kind of lshapedconnector, which pushes into a female socket. Don't think I explained this too well, but hope it gives you anIdea,Billy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 orcomplicatethings, but my Victor Classic uses a kettle lead type of plugontheVictor side, but with two pins. If you have a three pin plug,(orsocket, strictly speaking) to plug into the machine then thisdoesn'tmatter of course as the earth connection simply doesn't getused.All that said, maybe the later Classics do indeed have a figureofeight lead, and if so, then of course ignore this message.Simplythat with my Classic I use any old lead around the place toplugitinto the mains; and after all this time I certainly have to asthebattery 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 mydaughterto go onto Ebay later on, and try get it, thanks, Billy ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of TrueBlue & Proud Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 10:24 AM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of TrueBlue & Proud Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 9:36 AM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 8:45 AM Subject: [access-uk] longer power cable for VictorClassic?hi guys, I'm needing to move my Victor Classic from oneposition toanother, and to achieve this, I must have a longer power supplycable. The onepowering my player at the moment is not long enough to dothe job. 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