Thank you for this return of experience.
I didn't have any complicated issues before but for my 5 octaves keyboards from the mid-eighties that don't have external power supplies. I ended up running my DW-8000 on a big transformer like you that also provides more than enough watts to feed other units as well, but I didn't look to see if it has any voltage selector like the Casio yet. I'll enventually have to deal with an ESQ-1 as well and I hope it will be convenient.
Otherwise for my modern synths I just had to buy the corresponding PSU for 120V but this can be ridiculously expensive in music stores.
This is when I really appreciate manifacturers like DSI who not only provide PSU that supports from 100V to 240V but also provide the different adapters for America, UK and Europe.
Many thanks,
Jérôme
"Daniel Forró danforcz@yahoo.com [CZsynth]" <CZsynth@yahoogroups.com> a écrit :
I have moved from Europe to Japan 12 years ago with all my circus (really lot of instruments and other gear) and had to solve similar problem. My experience is:
- very few machines have PSU which accepts wide range of voltages and switch automatically to any input voltage (example - Emu Systems instruments, Apple computers...)
- only few instruments has universal transformer and voltage selector - mainly older machines (for example some Yamaha, Roland, Korg, Casio...)
- very few machines have voltage selector but quite unusable for my case as it can switch only 100 or 120 Volts, or 200 or 240 (example - Yamaha active speakers MS60S)
- few machine have universal transformer and inside are pins enabling reconnecting to different voltage (example - Korg mixer 168RC)
- very few machines have universal transformer but it's necessary to solder cables to
different location (for example Roland JD800)
- most machines were manufactured for different world zones and can't be switched to different voltage without changing transformer. I have to use step-up transformer changing Japanese 100 Volts to European 220 Volts. I have custom made big transformer - 5 kW - for all machines in my studio, one 2.5 kW which I use for concert gigs, and few more smaller for different tasks and reserve.
Let's not forget when you change the voltage, it's necessary to change also fuses! Try to find some information about this.
Daniel Forro
On Aug 31, 2015, at 11:16 PM, '350ypvs@googlemail.com' 350ypvs@gmail.com [CZsynth] wrote:
Jerome, please post what you discover if you find a solution to your Europe to Canada CZ-1 voltage problem. I have emigrated to the USA and next year I will be shipping over my synth collection from the UK, which includes mains powered CZ-1, FZ-20M and VZ-1. I was looking at buying some 110v - 240 voltage converters, but if there's a simple switch inside the Casios that can make them run on 110v that would be much better.Cheers!Chas