Dear forum,
I have an issue trying to adapt Japanese appliance to the UK grid.
After prolonged use, the deck gets tempromental, i.e. not enough power is getting to to it. It switches off sometimes, when I switch it off / then on again, the display struggles to light up, then it dies again. The auto-trans gets pretty hot but nothing overly alarming. The DAT deck reads '32W 100v'. Not exactly power intensive class A stuff...
The sticker on the transformer reads '230v to 100v, 50VA'
There was an non-factory sticker on the deck which read "110 volts", naturally I got a transformer advertised 110v / Uk > Japanese.
Any idea's whats going on here?
I could return the auto-transformer, but I'll need a suggestion for a replacement.
I actually have a UK model of the same deck, but the transformer block on this design would've been PITA to swap over, the cables run through the chassis and are soldered to PCB. I thought auto-transformer was simpler. I'd like to get the UK deck working again too as it's a spare.
Thanks for the help where it ensues...
I have an issue trying to adapt Japanese appliance to the UK grid.
After prolonged use, the deck gets tempromental, i.e. not enough power is getting to to it. It switches off sometimes, when I switch it off / then on again, the display struggles to light up, then it dies again. The auto-trans gets pretty hot but nothing overly alarming. The DAT deck reads '32W 100v'. Not exactly power intensive class A stuff...
The sticker on the transformer reads '230v to 100v, 50VA'
There was an non-factory sticker on the deck which read "110 volts", naturally I got a transformer advertised 110v / Uk > Japanese.
Any idea's whats going on here?
I could return the auto-transformer, but I'll need a suggestion for a replacement.
I actually have a UK model of the same deck, but the transformer block on this design would've been PITA to swap over, the cables run through the chassis and are soldered to PCB. I thought auto-transformer was simpler. I'd like to get the UK deck working again too as it's a spare.
Thanks for the help where it ensues...