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Hi all
I offered to help a friend set up his old mostly Rotel system when he moved it from one room to another. What I had forgotten is that he bought most of his equipment in the US when he lived there many years ago. So most, but not all, of his equipment has the US plugs and are also 120V. Im very comfortable setting up all the different devices to work together but not comfortable safely setting up the mixtures of 120V and 220V components. I definitely don't want to see any blue smoke and damage any of his equipment. How do I go about setting this up safely and will I need a transformer?
Setup from the front - only the top component (DVD player) is 220V, the rest are 120V.
More importantly, the view from the back. Firstly note that it looks like I can plug 2 of the 120V devices into the back of the 120V processor as seen in this pic. Should I do that or rather not?
So how do I now connect all of this safely to the power? What do we still need?
Alastair
I offered to help a friend set up his old mostly Rotel system when he moved it from one room to another. What I had forgotten is that he bought most of his equipment in the US when he lived there many years ago. So most, but not all, of his equipment has the US plugs and are also 120V. Im very comfortable setting up all the different devices to work together but not comfortable safely setting up the mixtures of 120V and 220V components. I definitely don't want to see any blue smoke and damage any of his equipment. How do I go about setting this up safely and will I need a transformer?
Setup from the front - only the top component (DVD player) is 220V, the rest are 120V.
More importantly, the view from the back. Firstly note that it looks like I can plug 2 of the 120V devices into the back of the 120V processor as seen in this pic. Should I do that or rather not?
So how do I now connect all of this safely to the power? What do we still need?
Alastair
