I tried again and the same thing happened. After setting it all up and turning the TV on, everything was running smooth for about 5 minutes and then the converter just shut itself off. Please excuse that I'm not very knowledgeable with this. I bought one anyway, with the input listed as AC 110V-130V / 220V - 240V 50/60Hz and the output listed as 100V. I thought buying a power converter would be simple enough, but for some strange reason all or most converters sold in Japan are labeled as being unusable in Japan. The problem is this: my TV is 220V and Japanese outlets are 110V. So I moved to Japan recently and decided to bring my TV with me because it was still cheaper to ship it over than buy a new one. Any good advice on how to handle this?Įdit: by the ways, it's really tough to find specific info for this online, so you're my only help GAF!! Anyways, I'm getting PS4 deprived now and I'm really tempted to just stick my TV cord into the outlet directly to see what happens (I know at the very least it won't be as dangerous as if the voltages were reversed). What could have been the problem here and how do I solve it? By the way, no breaker tripped during these events.So I moved to Japan recently and decided to bring my TV with me because it was still cheaper to ship it over than buy a new one. I immediately checked the yellow wire that was accidentally shorted to gnd in the original room and was shocked that there is also no voltage reading on that wire. Specifically, the yellow wires on each set of that outlet has no voltage. Now, I noticed that in my other room one of the two-outlets there wasn't working. I immediately removed the yellow wire from the N terminal of set 2 and replaced it with the green wire to make its terminal connections exactly the same to that of set 1. I didn't realize this until after I use a voltmeter to check the voltage at set 2 (between L and N) and realized that the value was 110V when I was expecting the original 220V. In this manner the yellow wire of set 2 (N) was shorted to the green wire of set 1 (N) through the two-gang outlet. There are two sets of three terminals (L, N, and gnd) each. I thought I can make half (one three-terminal set) of the outlet 110V and the other will remain at 220V. I never thought that both L, both N, and both gnd terminals of a two-gang outlet are shorted through the outlet itself. I planned to DIY one of my two-gang outlets to convert it to 110V just by replacing the yellow wire with the green wire, leaving the yellow hanging and the gnd terminal of the outlet empty. I live in the Philippines and the main outlet here is 220V, two 110V hot wires (red and yellow) and one gnd wire (green).
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