Hi All, I recently got my iQue Player out of storage, plugged it into a 110v adaptor and found it doesn't work, the red and green lights come on when the power button is pressed but go off as soon as you take your finger off?. Am I missing something very obvious?? Regards
It's a 220V device, that's why. I would not recommend using a 3rd party/generic power adapter on the iQue Player. There's a big chance that it's not meant to handle 110V, without using a stepdown adapter. However, make sure the card slot at the bottom of the controller, has a card in it, and is clean/dust free. It must make a solid connection (If there's no card, or the cards connection is interrupted, the system will not boot). You can also try connecting the controller to 5V USB into your PC to see if it gets power that way.
It just wouldn't get enough power, I highly doubt using 100v in a 220v device will cause issues. Would be like plugging a 220v lamp into a 100v outlet, it'd just be dim. I could be wrong though.
I think it can cause issues if the hertz are different. I believe if you plug a 220v 50Hz device into a 100v 60Hz outlet, it can damage the device or cause it to not turn on. A 220v 60Hz device in a 100v 60Hz outlet might not receive enough power. I know for a fact that plugging a 100-120v device into a 220-240v outlet, regardless of hertz, will fry the poor device. I have a relative who is a retired electrician and he told me that the USA power system, grid, whatever it is called, use to run at 110-120v at 50Hz but the lights kept flickering so they bumped it up to 60Hz and it fixed it. I did more research into this and the USA did in fact use 50Hz until 1948 when a part of Southern California, the last remaining part of the USA using 50Hz, upgraded to 60Hz. 60Hz was determined to be best by the Westinghouse Company during some tests with 110-120v at 50Hz and 60Hz. Despite popular belief, we actually do use 220v here in the USA. Our power lines carry 220v at 60Hz. The power from the lines get fed into the house where they are then converted to 110-120v at 60Hz for normal outlets. There are normally a couple appliance outlets in our houses that use 220v.
If you're talking switching power supplies, when you connect a 220v power supply on a 110/100v line one of these four things may happen: 1- Voltage is not enough to cause it to attempt a start. Nothing happens 2- Voltage is enough for it to attempt a start but the circuit detects that something is wrong. Start is blocked and it stops trying. Nothing happens. 3- Voltage is enough, it starts and even have enough current to power the device. But due to Ohm's law you will overcurrent the rectifier diodes and they might short down. Blows stuff on the PSU, particularly the input rectifiers and the fuse. 4- Nothing wrong happens and power supply works properly.
Ahh 220v, that's odd for a Japanese device. Thanks for info!! and yes from experience plugging a 110v into a 220v machine does nothing except not working, plugging a 220v into a 110v causes a pop on the fuse (which is hopefully in the PSU of the machine) Not a good idea...
The reason the iQue is 220V is because it's a device made for the mainland China market, not Japan - and mainland china uses 220V, 50Hz power. It's easy to get confused, because the Chinese 2 pin plug is almost identical to the Japanese one - the most obvious difference is that the Japanese plug has holes in the prongs near the end and the Chinese one doesn't.
