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  • Jan 5, 2011, 02:37 AM
    Voltair
    What happens when you plug a 120v speaker into a 220v outlet?
  • Jan 5, 2011, 03:50 AM
    tkrussell
    Nothing, it will not operate properly.
  • Jan 5, 2011, 02:14 PM
    ma0641
    You will burn it out promptly. Did you do it? Get a step down transformer.
  • Jan 5, 2011, 05:23 PM
    Stratmando

    It will fry the voice coil with either, speakers don't get voltage applied directly to them, actuall they do get voltage, but not that high.
    Are you trying to listen to Electricity?
    You need an Amp or something.
    Is this a wireless speaker.
    How did you do this, are your 120 and 240 volt recepticles the same configuration, or did you change the plug end, trying to figure out?
  • Jan 5, 2011, 07:40 PM
    Voltair
    Comment on tkrussell's post
    I did this by accident. I live in Korea now and forgot that it was 220.
    It will not work now.
    Can I get this fixed?
  • Jan 5, 2011, 07:40 PM
    Voltair
    Comment on ma0641's post
    I did this by accident. I live in Korea now and forgot that it was 220.
    It will not work now.
    Can I get this fixed?
  • Jan 5, 2011, 07:40 PM
    Voltair
    Comment on Stratmando's post
    I did this by accident. I live in Korea now and forgot that it was 220.
    It will not work now.
    Can I get this fixed?
  • Jan 6, 2011, 10:14 AM
    ma0641
    Are these powered speakers or a power supply? Does a 120V plug look like a 240V outlet in Korea?
  • Jan 6, 2011, 01:03 PM
    tkrussell
    Duh, sorry I took it the other way around. Yea a 120 volt device powered by 220 volts will destroy it.
  • Jan 6, 2011, 01:23 PM
    ma0641
    Comment on tkrussell's post
    OMG! And I had the greatest of confidence in you! Too much voltage to the gray matter! Happens to me all the time!LOL, Brian
  • Jan 6, 2011, 02:04 PM
    tkrussell
    Either age, or the mind altering substances.

    Definitely the age.And trying answers questions at 5:50 in the morning before work.
  • Jan 9, 2011, 07:37 AM
    Stratmando

    After realizing their is probably more to this, If Powered Speakers, A Tech will apply the correct Voltage follow into the enclosure, check for power in and out of any fuse(may be all that is wrong, then in and out of Transformer, and so on, you could get lucky.

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