Hey, Guys. I am a little nervous because I was warned about an inflammatory answer I made to a post, and had no idea that is what it was. I thought I was asking an honest question.
Sooo, to continue carefully. I have a Marantz system, with a 2020 tuner, and a 1050 integrated amp. These came installed in a small metal Marantz rack mount. This system had a strange power hook-up...proprietary three (round prong) cords plugged into a central box, which had a standard 3 prong plug for the wall. Caused a real messy bunch of cords! Makes no sense to me. So, in order to use these components separately elsewhere, I removed the original cords, and installed standard power cords. However, I used large black cords like you get on desktop computers, two flats and one round prong for ground. Having now moved these components back into the marantz cabinet, those large (stiff) cords are creating the problem of using so much room in the back of the cabinet.
I would like to put standard, zipcord power cords in place of these large ones. My question is....can I safely use a two wire cord, in place of the two wire with ground cords? All my extension cords only have the two wire (one larger blade), so I am using the 3 wire to 2 wire adapters. How would I wire this two wire cord inside the amp and tuner cabinets to eliminate all these problems? What would I do about the missing third, ground prong connection? BTW, this integrated amp is probably only 30 WPC, or so.....huge power cords are not necessary at all.
Which leads to this. Years ago, all cords were 2 wire. Then we went to virtually all small appliances and audio components coming with 2 wire with ground. Now we are back to mostly two wire, with one wider blade. Why was it ok to have 2, then we had to have 3, now it is ok to have 2 again??!
Sooo, to continue carefully. I have a Marantz system, with a 2020 tuner, and a 1050 integrated amp. These came installed in a small metal Marantz rack mount. This system had a strange power hook-up...proprietary three (round prong) cords plugged into a central box, which had a standard 3 prong plug for the wall. Caused a real messy bunch of cords! Makes no sense to me. So, in order to use these components separately elsewhere, I removed the original cords, and installed standard power cords. However, I used large black cords like you get on desktop computers, two flats and one round prong for ground. Having now moved these components back into the marantz cabinet, those large (stiff) cords are creating the problem of using so much room in the back of the cabinet.
I would like to put standard, zipcord power cords in place of these large ones. My question is....can I safely use a two wire cord, in place of the two wire with ground cords? All my extension cords only have the two wire (one larger blade), so I am using the 3 wire to 2 wire adapters. How would I wire this two wire cord inside the amp and tuner cabinets to eliminate all these problems? What would I do about the missing third, ground prong connection? BTW, this integrated amp is probably only 30 WPC, or so.....huge power cords are not necessary at all.
Which leads to this. Years ago, all cords were 2 wire. Then we went to virtually all small appliances and audio components coming with 2 wire with ground. Now we are back to mostly two wire, with one wider blade. Why was it ok to have 2, then we had to have 3, now it is ok to have 2 again??!