Billy, for the Stream you cannot do better than visit Brian Hargen's
portal within his site at:
www.hartgen.org
If I've not alwished you all a Merry Christmas, then let me wish you a
Merry Christmas now.
Cheers,
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: 24 December 2007 3:30PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Battery life of DAISY Cd players - (waslonger
power cable for Victor Classic?)
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 PM
Subject: [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 of
> in-lead
>> power 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 pathetic
> on
>> my 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 you
> get
>> with
>> 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,
> but
>>> sounds 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 on
> the
>>> right hand side(CD slot facing you). The mains socket is at the
>> back
>>> of the machine. They haven't changed these players that muchover
>> the
>>> past 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. it
> just
>>> happens
>>> 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 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
>>>> 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,
>>> 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 -----
>>>> 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.
>> 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>
>>>>> 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 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>
>>>>>> 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 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>
>>>>>>> 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 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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