Lynn and anybody else who is interested,
The United States, Canada and Mexico as well as most of the
Central American countries all use the same power supply hookup
hardware and voltages so I can't think of a single good reason
why gear made for the North American market would have to be
specially adapted as far as power goes.
The safety codes may be more or less strict in different
countries, here, but Canadian electrical goods use the same
outlets as are found here. As I described it before, North
American sockets installed after 1962 or so, if compared to a
clock face, would have a round hole at 6 o'clock, a virtical
slot at 9 which is supposed to be connected to Neutral, and a
slightly narrower slot at 3 which is "hot" with 120 volts.
I don't know about digital televisions as to whether
Canada uses the same encoding standard as we do, but that's not
a power issue. The same is true with FM digital radios. Canada
uses a different scheme more like yours in the UK for digital
radio, but again, that's not power related.
The equipment would actually safely power up in either
country, but you might not have anything to receive;-).
Audio gear, as long as it is not a digital radio, should
travel everywhere in North America without a problem. If you
were in Canada with one of our digital radios, it would still
receive FM analog just fine, just not Canadian digital
broadcasting. It wouldn't catch fire or not fit the power
socket.
I wish you luck on getting your replacement power supply. It
would be such a mess to have to send the whole thing back over a
$20 or maybe $50 power supply because it's gone missing from the
package.
"Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith" writes:
> Hello Martin & everybody
>
> I'm told that the various models are packaged in regional operations
> centres. Yamaha Europe is, for example, based in Germany. They box them
> as they receive the various models from the Yamaha production centre in
> China.
>
> The suppliers buy them in bulk , and wholesale them to the sellers around
> Europe. The UK model is unique in as much as it is supplied with 2 power
> cables; this is because the UK uses a different form of power outlet to
> continental Europe. Our plugs are configured in a triangular formation
> where the left-hand pin is neutral, the right-hand pin is live (where the
> fuse is located) and the top pin is the earth terminal.
>
> The European plugs use two round pins which are interchangeable. The
> earth, where it's used, is via the outer casing of the plug itself and
> there is no fuse in the plug.
>
> I believe that the US and Canada, along with Australia, New Zealand and
> Asia, receive their imports direct from the main factory in China. I am
> not sure how they handle their packaging because obviously the US and
> Canadian power supplies are different. I'd imagine it's the same supply,
> but with a couple of modifications to accommodate the different power
> settings.
>
> Australia does things the sensible way, as we do and most of the rest of
> the world does. We all use the same power configurations which I'm sure
> makes things easier for manufacturers.
>
> Although the plug configurations are different, that doesn't really, I'd
> imagine, pose much of a problem since the only differences would be in
> the manufacturing of the power cables which would be done in bulk anyway
> probably by a different company.
>
> Anyway, as I said, I used the Yamaha website. I don't particularly fancy
> incurring the expense of having to make lengthy phone calls overseas.
> That was my initial tripe, which it seems others don't agree with. Maybe
> I'm just more fussy; maybe I just watch the pennies more than some. But I
> did not see why I should have this mess to sort out. Under UK law, the
> seller has an obligation to ensure that defective, missing or wrongly
> included components are replaced as per the consumer's request. The
> consumer has the right to cancel the contract of purchase within 14 days
> if they are not happy with their product for any reason.
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