Re: wall warts in China?

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:51:48 -0700, the renowned "Walter Harley"
<walterh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"Spehro Pefhany" <speffSNIP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:pf3vg1hklq7sc2m1clgjjj7h8iocp0dgn5@xxxxxxxxxx
>> 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.
>
>
>The customer lives in Suzhou, Jiangsu. 60miles west of Shanghai.
>
>What he'll need is a wall wart adapter with 220V primary, 12VAC 500mA
>secondary, and 2.1mm x 5.5mm coaxial plug. Quantity one.
>
>Thanks for any advice you can send my way!
>
> -walter

Hi, Walter:-

If he can get to Shanghai, he could go to an electronics 'market' (at
Xujiahui, I think) and most likely get such an adapter over the
counter in quantity 1, probably for less than 20 yuan.

I don't know about the availability in Suzhou, but it's a fair sized
city (5-6 million) with some electronics manufacturing industry, so it
might have a similar place downtown, but Shanghai is only 45 minutes
away by inexpensive train.

Things like adapters are sold at such markets (similar to the tiny
shops in the Akihabara section of Tokyo) by many different merchants,
analogous to an Asian 'wet market' for produce, fish and meats.

He'll need the specifications (english is fine for those) and
something like a picture of a typical adapter (preferably without the
prongs showing so as to not confuse, and the coax plug showing) maybe
out of the Mouser or Digikey catalogs). I assume your design isn't
terribly fussy on the voltage so that regulation should not be an
issue.

A bit of trouble for a $169 sale, maybe, but you should only have to
prepare a specification *** once.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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