Reber vacuum packer- help please

[piglet]

Urgent help needed please. We have just received Franco's Reber vacuum packer and it has arrived complete with a european rounded 2 pin plug. We really need to use it tonight. My question is - is it safe to cut off the existing plug and fit a standard british one? We live in the far reaches of darkest Aberdeenshire, no chance of easily getting whatever converter is needed. Help please!

thanks

[Franco]

Hi Piglet,

you should have been sent an adaptor with your order, I'll give Steph a kick on Monday , it's safe to cut the plug off and replace it with a standard UK one.

I'll send you some seasonings free by way of an apology.

Thanks

Franco

[piglet]

thanks Franco for your quick reply, I know you were waiting for them to arrive, easily done to miss something in haste to complete customer's order.

Liz

[piglet]

Franco, sorry forgot to ask - if we do fit a standard UK plug any idea what size fuse we should use?

thanks

[piglet]

Franco, sorry forgot to ask - if we do fit a standard UK plug any idea what size fuse we should use?

thanks

oops sorry don't know how i put this on twice

[Franco]

13amp,


Regards


Franco

[Oddley]

Franco are you sure it's a 13 A fuse?

Suction capacity:

10 dm3/min;

max. Vacuum (depression): -800 mbar;

max. Absorbed power: 300W;

Power absorbed by air pump: 120W.

This looks to me, that the wattage for the machine is 420 W

So;

Amps = watts / voltage

Amps = 420 / 250 = 1.68 A

So a 3 Amp fuse would be better I think.