Re: wall warts in China?

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:03:12 -0700, the renowned "Walter Harley"
<walterh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I sell a device that uses a wall-wart transformer for power. The
>transformer supplies 12VAC (that's AC, not DC) at 500mA, through a 2.1mm x
>5.5mm coaxial plug. Since my company and most of my customers are
>USA-based, I supply transformers with a 120V primary.
>
>I have been contacted by a customer in China who would like to buy one, but
>he needs it to run on 220VAC, with whatever plug style they use in China.
>(I don't know whether we're talking mainland China, Taiwan, or Hong Kong, by
>the way.)
>
>He could always just use a 220V-120V stepdown transformer, along with the
>120V wall wart. But I'd rather just advise him to shop for an appropriate
>wall wart locally. However, I have no idea where one goes in China to buy
>things like that.
>
>Are there mail order suppliers, like Mouser or Digikey here in the states,
>that efficiently supply China?
>
>Are there local stores that would have something like that? ("Radio Shack
>China"?)
>
>Any advice I can pass on to him would be welcome. It would be ironic if
>something like this were unavailable in China given that's where they all
>seem to come from in the first place!

Hi, Walter:-

Tell me the city and I'll try to give you some useful advice. It's not
Taiwan if its 220VAC.

Not shipping the (useless) wall wart could significantly reduce the
shipping charges as well.


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Spehro Pefhany
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