- Sep 15, 2013
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Hi!
I'm pretty sure this is a simple, dumb question. While I'm generally intelligent and quick to understand things, I'm an electronics novice: near-complete ignorance. So I'd really appreciate help anyone's willing to offer (even if it's just a link to a guide that explains all this in very simple terms, that's great).
I want to be sure I'm using the right power cord for this amp I've got. It's a precious stereo amp (well, precious to me), and I don't want anything going wrong with it, like something melting inside, etc. My problem is, I don't have the original power cord, so I need to use one that won't harm the amp.
The amp is old, but undated: it's a Hafler, which was its own company until 1987, and then got sold to the Rockford Corporation; this amp lists Hafler as a Rockford division, so it's at least post-'87.
Back of amp reads:
120 VAC
50/60 Hz
power consumption 1200 watts maximum
The cable I have is a standard:
10 A
125 V
1250 watts
1) I don't even know what A stands for. Amps? I really don't have a proper understanding of what amps, volts, watts, hertz even are besides values of power that need to be appropriately matched.
2) My understanding is that the amp will only try to access 1200 watts/120 volts at most, so the cord would be fine. But the amp doesn't mention the "A" needed, and the cord doesn't make reference to hertz.
I've just had difficulty, after looking through so many posts, in seeing a plain ruling of something like: "cable's values need to be higher than component's," or whatever. I've seen lots of examples but each one leaves out some tiny detail that I'd want to see in order to have a definitive answer.
Help?
Thanks for reading this. I know I'm totally long-winded. I've got issues.
Phobrek
I'm pretty sure this is a simple, dumb question. While I'm generally intelligent and quick to understand things, I'm an electronics novice: near-complete ignorance. So I'd really appreciate help anyone's willing to offer (even if it's just a link to a guide that explains all this in very simple terms, that's great).
I want to be sure I'm using the right power cord for this amp I've got. It's a precious stereo amp (well, precious to me), and I don't want anything going wrong with it, like something melting inside, etc. My problem is, I don't have the original power cord, so I need to use one that won't harm the amp.
The amp is old, but undated: it's a Hafler, which was its own company until 1987, and then got sold to the Rockford Corporation; this amp lists Hafler as a Rockford division, so it's at least post-'87.
Back of amp reads:
120 VAC
50/60 Hz
power consumption 1200 watts maximum
The cable I have is a standard:
10 A
125 V
1250 watts
1) I don't even know what A stands for. Amps? I really don't have a proper understanding of what amps, volts, watts, hertz even are besides values of power that need to be appropriately matched.
2) My understanding is that the amp will only try to access 1200 watts/120 volts at most, so the cord would be fine. But the amp doesn't mention the "A" needed, and the cord doesn't make reference to hertz.
I've just had difficulty, after looking through so many posts, in seeing a plain ruling of something like: "cable's values need to be higher than component's," or whatever. I've seen lots of examples but each one leaves out some tiny detail that I'd want to see in order to have a definitive answer.
Help?
Thanks for reading this. I know I'm totally long-winded. I've got issues.
Phobrek
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