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Spehro Pefhany
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Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:35 am Post subject:
Re: wall warts in China? |
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On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:51:48 -0700, the renowned "Walter Harley"
<walterh@cafewalterNOSPAM.com> wrote:
| Quote: | "Spehro Pefhany" <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote in message
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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
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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 sheet once.
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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Walter Harley
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Tue Sep 06, 2005 11:17 pm Post subject:
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"Spehro Pefhany" <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote in message
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| Quote: | 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 sheet once.
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Thanks a bunch! Visiting an "electronics market" sounds like it would be an
interesting experience.
It won't be hard for me to put together a spec sheet like what you describe.
And it would be useful to European customers as well.
-walter |
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RST Engineering (jw)
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Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject:
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Mouser, Jameco, Digikey ... all routinely ship overseas. I think you are
making a mountain out of a warthill.
Jim
"Walter Harley" <walterh@cafewalterNOSPAM.com> wrote in message
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The customer lives in Suzhou, Jiangsu. 60miles west of Shanghai.
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Watson A.Name - \"Watt Su
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Sat Sep 10, 2005 10:01 pm Post subject:
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"RST Engineering (jw)" <jim@rstengineering.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Mouser, Jameco, Digikey ... all routinely ship overseas. I think you
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making a mountain out of a warthill.
Jim
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Warthill!? Wazza warthill??
Is that like Hogwarts? Just a figurative expression..
| Quote: | "Walter Harley" <walterh@cafewalterNOSPAM.com> wrote in message
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The customer lives in Suzhou, Jiangsu. 60miles west of Shanghai.
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Walter Harley
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Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:03 pm Post subject:
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"RST Engineering (jw)" <jim@rstengineering.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Mouser, Jameco, Digikey ... all routinely ship overseas. I think you are
making a mountain out of a warthill.
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I know they ship overseas, but at least their US and online catalogs don't
list any 220V-primary adapters. Not that I found, anyhow.
Plus, I think these places will only ship overseas via private carriers like
UPS or FedEx. That can put the shipping cost for even small packages into
the > US$50 range, in my limited experience with sending things to Asia. I
can't tell a customer to buy a US$169 product and pay another US$60 for the
wall wart, especially when the wall wart came from China in the first place
and cost US$3 there! |
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