Voltage Question?

bluevoice

Hi - I have a question that I have not been able to find the answer to anywhere online. I am about to move to Ireland from the States. I am a musician, and have an M-Audio Firewire Solo Recording Interface into which I plug a mic and my guitar. I use it with Garageband on my little laptop - an ibook G4. I know that the ibook automatically switches internally when presented with a different voltage - but I cannot find any information about a phantom power hardware attched to the ibook. I really don't want my M-Audio to go boom. Can anyone tell me if I need a transformer, or will the ibook's auto-switch take care of everything? As I said, the M-Audio runs off the ibook's power (although I can plug it in, it is not advisable).

Thanks for any help!

[:)]

Tom Dunne

bluevoice wrote:

Can anyone tell me if I need a transformer, or will the ibook's auto-switch take care of everything? As I said, the M-Audio runs off the ibook's power (although I can plug it in, it is not advisable).

If the unit is powered by the firewire port on the Mac, I don't what the problem is.

Firewire is firewire, no matter where it is used. The output voltage of a firewire (or usb, for that matter) port will be the same, irrespective of the input voltage to the laptop.

bluevoice

Thanks for the info!