Power cable for all-in-one printer

Pdonlan

Hi,

I don't know if this is the right place, but I need a little help.

I am setting up a printer for my father, which he bought online.

It has a two-pronged European cable and I'm wondering if it will be okay to use an old three-pronged cable lying around here? It was used for a computer.

The European cable provided has the following markings: 10A 250V, and also 16 /250

The cable I want to use has 10A 250V too but is different in that it says 5/250

I honestly have no clue about these things, and I don't want to damage the printer

Please help

Antar Bolaeisk

Yep, it will be grand.

My general rule of thumb when it comes to cabling is if it fits it should work (I shall follow it until something blows up)

As for the figures on the wires, the 250 is obviously the rated voltage and though I should know it I can't remember exactly what the other number is about. I doubt it's a current rating as a 16A wire would be fairly heavy duty. I've a funny feeling it means the number of strands over which the power is carried so in the case of the 16/250 wire there are 16 strands of wire per core though I'm probably completely wrong on this.

Pdonlan

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

Yep, it will be grand.

My general rule of thumb when it comes to cabling is if it fits it should work (I shall follow it until something blows up)

As for the figures on the wires, the 250 is obviously the rated voltage and though I should know it I can't remember exactly what the other number is about. I doubt it's a current rating as a 16A wire would be fairly heavy duty. I've a funny feeling it means the number of strands over which the power is carried so in the case of the 16/250 wire there are 16 strands of wire per core though I'm probably completely wrong on this.

Thanks very much for your answer.