Power take off on blender?

Not really electronics or home repair, but you guys seem the most
likely to know.

I have part of a Black and Decker Handy Blender, but not the model
that I found with a picture on the web. Suffice to say, it's a
blender.

And there is a mini-jack on the base, and it is in parallel with the
motor, except there is a small diode in series with the jack. So I
guess the jacke would have had about 60 volts DC. What was the
purpose of that jack?

(There is also some part I don't recognize in parallel with the
diode/jack. It looks like a small diode, but tan and partly made of
glass, and the white band is on the same end as the actual diode, and
my 9-volt digital multimeter shows the resistance as "infinite" even
on the 20 meg scale, in both directions.)

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It takes 4 diodes (bridge rectifier) to create DC.

My guess is they sell/sold some attachment of some sort which required
power.

-Tim

Tim Fischer spake thus:

It takes 4 diodes (bridge rectifier) to create DC.

Not true; one will produce DC, though not as effectively as either 2 (in
a voltage doubler) or 4 in a bridge rectifier.


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Is this blender battery powered?
"mm" wrote in message
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Power take off on blender?

Not really electronics or home repair, but you guys seem the most
likely to know.

I have part of a Black and Decker Handy Blender, but not the model
that I found with a picture on the web. Suffice to say, it's a
blender.

And there is a mini-jack on the base, and it is in parallel with the
motor, except there is a small diode in series with the jack. So I
guess the jacke would have had about 60 volts DC. What was the
purpose of that jack?

(There is also some part I don't recognize in parallel with the
diode/jack. It looks like a small diode, but tan and partly made of
glass, and the white band is on the same end as the actual diode, and
my 9-volt digital multimeter shows the resistance as "infinite" even
on the 20 meg scale, in both directions.)

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On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:18:00 -0500, "Craven Morehead"
wrote:

Is this blender battery powered?

No. It plugged into the wall.

(Not just any place on the wall. There had to be an electric outlet.)

:-)

"mm" wrote in message
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Power take off on blender?

Not really electronics or home repair, but you guys seem the most
likely to know.

I have part of a Black and Decker Handy Blender, but not the model
that I found with a picture on the web. Suffice to say, it's a
blender.

And there is a mini-jack on the base, and it is in parallel with the
motor, except there is a small diode in series with the jack. So I
guess the jacke would have had about 60 volts DC. What was the
purpose of that jack?

(There is also some part I don't recognize in parallel with the
diode/jack. It looks like a small diode, but tan and partly made of
glass, and the white band is on the same end as the actual diode, and
my 9-volt digital multimeter shows the resistance as "infinite" even
on the 20 meg scale, in both directions.)


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mm wrote:
Power take off on blender?

Not really electronics or home repair, but you guys seem the most
likely to know.

I have part of a Black and Decker Handy Blender, but not the model
that I found with a picture on the web. Suffice to say, it's a
blender.

And there is a mini-jack on the base, and it is in parallel with the
motor, except there is a small diode in series with the jack. So I
guess the jack would have had about 60 volts DC. What was the
purpose of that jack?

The power takeoff is standard on KitchenAid mixers. There are a whole
host of attachments. I'd imagine the blender takeoff is similar, but
the electrical jack is a bit odd. No idea what would attach to a
blender and require mechanical power and electric.

R

On 31 Oct 2006 06:54:42 -0800, "RicodJour"
wrote:

mm wrote:
Power take off on blender?

Not really electronics or home repair, but you guys seem the most
likely to know.

I have part of a Black and Decker Handy Blender, but not the model
that I found with a picture on the web. Suffice to say, it's a
blender.

And there is a mini-jack on the base, and it is in parallel with the
motor, except there is a small diode in series with the jack. So I
guess the jack would have had about 60 volts DC. What was the
purpose of that jack?

The power takeoff is standard on KitchenAid mixers. There are a whole
host of attachments. I'd imagine the blender takeoff is similar, but
the electrical jack is a bit odd. No idea what would attach to a
blender and require mechanical power and electric.

I'm sorry. I wasn't clear. I don't have the whole device, only the
base, but I didnt' identify any mechanical connection. Just the
electric.

Z, the diode and jack are in series with each other, and the small
unidentifed part is in parallel with the two of them together. It's
awful small to be a capacitor. It's the same size as those tiny
diodes, a mm. in diameter and 1.5 mm in length. And it has that
little bit that is clear plastic or glass.

I'll look at the Kitchen Aid appliances if they sell them in stores,
and maybe even read the insstruction manual.

Thanks.

R


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On 31 Oct 2006 06:54:42 -0800, "RicodJour"
wrote:

I'm sorry. I wasn't clear. I don't have the whole device, only the
base, but I didnt' identify any mechanical connection. Just the
electric.

Now I'm really confused. A blender base with no mechanical connection?
Then what is it, basically a power supply?

-Tim

"Tim Fischer" wrote in message
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I'm sorry. I wasn't clear. I don't have the whole device, only the
base, but I didnt' identify any mechanical connection. Just the
electric.

Now I'm really confused. A blender base with no mechanical connection?
Then what is it, basically a power supply?

Maybe it's really a charger?

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:44:09 -0600, "Tim Fischer"
wrote:

"mm" wrote in message
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On 31 Oct 2006 06:54:42 -0800, "RicodJour"
wrote:

--- No idea what would attach to a
---blender and require mechanical power and electric.



I'm sorry. I wasn't clear. I don't have the whole device, only the
base, but I didnt' identify any mechanical connection. Just the
electric.

Now I'm really confused. A blender base with no mechanical connection?
Then what is it, basically a power supply?

It had a mechanical connection to the thing above it, that it blended.
Just none to whatever plugged into the 60 volt jack. Didn't you refer
to a possible something that had both? If not, that's what I thought
you meant.

-Tim



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"mm" wrote in message
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:44:09 -0600, "Tim Fischer"
It had a mechanical connection to the thing above it, that it blended.
Just none to whatever plugged into the 60 volt jack. Didn't you refer
to a possible something that had both? If not, that's what I thought
you meant.

That wasn't me, but someone did. I think the point was that perhaps
something attached to both the mechanical connection you describe, AND the
power connection. But none of us are clear on what would need both of these
things...

-Tim

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:44:09 -0600, "Tim Fischer"
wrote:

"mm" wrote in message
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On 31 Oct 2006 06:54:42 -0800, "RicodJour"
wrote:

I'm sorry. I wasn't clear. I don't have the whole device, only the
base, but I didnt' identify any mechanical connection. Just the
electric.

Now I'm really confused. A blender base with no mechanical connection?
Then what is it, basically a power supply?

Oops, sorry. It wasn't you who asked the question. (But it was you
who snipped Rocotdjour's statement that I replied to. With his
statement in front, my statement was much more clear.)

-Tim

mm wrote:
Power take off on blender?

Not really electronics or home repair, but you guys seem the most
likely to know.

I have part of a Black and Decker Handy Blender, but not the model
that I found with a picture on the web. Suffice to say, it's a
blender.

And there is a mini-jack on the base, and it is in parallel with the
motor, except there is a small diode in series with the jack. So I
guess the jacke would have had about 60 volts DC. What was the
purpose of that jack?

(There is also some part I don't recognize in parallel with the
diode/jack. It looks like a small diode, but tan and partly made of
glass, and the white band is on the same end as the actual diode, and
my 9-volt digital multimeter shows the resistance as "infinite" even
on the 20 meg scale, in both directions.)

Remove NOPSAM to email me..

Mystery item probably a capacitor. Is it in parallel with the jack or
in parallel with the diode? I can't imagine what this setup is good
for. If I needed half wave rectified wall plug power, I wouldn't buy a
blender to get it.