What does a German diezel power plug end look like?

jonl

jonl

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I mayb purchasing a diezel amp from Germany that is wired 220V.
I have an outlet reading about 240v

Can I use this outlet?




 
The socket looks like this:
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And the end of the power chord looks like this:

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So to connect it to what you have there, seems to require some modification.
 
the voltage is fine. The socket is not. You'll need an adapter, they keep selling those everywhere i gues (where are you from btw?)
 
I am in USA

I think I may need to buy a step up transformer, anyone know a good one to purchase?
 
K-Roll":234cx1g0 said:
how can you be in the US and read 240v in your socket? I thought you guys have 110v

European electronics runs on 230v mains voltage (I'm from EU)


here's all socket types explained http://www.worldstandards.eu/electricit ... d-sockets/ (edit, just saw someone else post similar thing) your socket looks Australian
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Current US voltage standard is 120v. Some appliances including driers, AC and Heater systems run at 240v. So many houses have at least 1 or more 240 volt hookups.

BTW that plug on the original post is a US electric drier outlet.
 
It looks exactly like our Australian sockets, except upside down... but I guess we would look 'down under' to you guys in the Northern hemisphere :)
 
-NO-

-I haven't seen the diezel schematic to know if there's multi tap voltage wiring, or if they use different transformers.

-euro 220 is physically single phase 220-(meaning one hot leg at 220 volts, one common leg & a ground)-

-USA 220/240 is physically 2 phase 220/240-(meaning one leg at 120v, and one leg at 120v-out of phase from the first leg, giving you 240v when measuring across the 2 legs, and a common leg, and to make it even more confusing, in the USA the "physically 2 phase" is called single phase 220/240, why? I have no fucking idea.

-in the USA the different 220/240 outlets-(pin and blade locations)-is determined by amperage
 
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