Finding the right adapter

virgo17

balloo wrote: »

Try to help and i get shot down in flames Ok I will keep my thoughts to myself in future.

Good idea. What you suggested is totally dangerous. The OP stated that the mains adapter was 5v-1a. That means it provides a 5 volt supply to the photo frame and is capable of supplying 1 amp.

Cutting the wire and putting a mains plug on it will shove 230 - 240 volts into the photo frame which will fry it and possibly electrocute anyone holding it at the time.

Inactive

balloo wrote: »

Try to help and i get shot down in flames Ok I will keep my thoughts to myself in future.

You deserve to be corrected, what you suggested is downright dangerous, possibly lethal.

Clearly forum members would benefit if you did keep your thoughts to yourself.

balloo_2

virgo17 wrote: »

Good idea. What you suggested is totally dangerous. The OP stated that the mains adapter was 5v-1a. That means it provides a 5 volt supply to the photo frame and is capable of supplying 1 amp.

Cutting the wire and putting a mains plug on it will shove 230 - 240 volts into the photo frame which will fry it and possibly electrocute anyone holding it at the time.

Does the moulded plug plug into 240v socket answer YES so what is the problem with cutting off the 240v moulded plug and rewiring a 240v ordinary plug and put the same fuse in as what's already in it. Or do you guys live in a world of moulded plugs and are afraid or don't know how to wire a plug up!!!!

DVardysShadow

balloo wrote: »

Does the moulded plug plug into 240v socket answer YES so what is the problem with cutting off the 240v moulded plug and rewiring a 240v ordinary plug and put the same fuse in as what's already in it. Or do you guys live in a world of moulded plugs and are afraid or don't know how to wire a plug up!!!!

Well, first of all, you were mistaken to get offended at being corrected previously. But your post above shows that you have made a genuine mistake - and unfortunately you have not understood the explanations already given.

The 'plug' is not a plug, it is a mains transformer-rectifier set or a switching power supply. If you put 230V mains into a plug, you get 230V mains out. But if you put 230V mains into the OP's 'plug', you will get something like 5V or 12V out for the picture frame. If this 'plug' is substituted with a plug, you will put 230V mains on to a picture frame designed for 5V or 12V. This will destroy the picture frame.

Please. if you understand the explanation, just accept your mistake and accept that people who understood had a duty to point out that your advice was in error. And if you don't understand the explanation, by all means ask, but please accept that the motive for pointing it out was to protect the OP from real physical injury, not to hurt your feelings.

virgo17

Read the original post.

Let me spell it out:

The 'plug' as you call it is a mains adapter. It takes in 240 volts from the mains and using either a small inbuilt transformer/rectifier or switched mode circuit, converts the higher mains voltage to 5 volts, which is what the photo frame requires. These kinds of mains power supplies/adapters are very common now, perhaps the most common are phone chargers.

The fact that the mains adapter has three pins that plug into a 13 amp sockets is purely design. It could equally well have had a 'normal' mains plug with a short length of mains wire to a small box containing the adapter circuit followed by a greater length of low voltage twin wire to the photo frame.

I hope you understand now.

balloo_2

Sorry guys for my lack of knowledge guys. II was only trying to give something back. :embarasse

virgo17

balloo wrote: »

Sorry guys for my lack of knowledge guys. II was only trying to give something back. :embarasse

No problem!

I understand that everyone loves to help here. As long as we are all safe, I'm happy.

Regards,

V.