Amp plug wiring question

Fazer

so, a 2nd hand amp i got on ebay arrived with a smashed up plug.
it has some odd double wiring that i've not seen before, a 2nd mains cable that shares the blue/brown connections.
is it just an alternative mains socket type for europe or something? (via some kind of adapter)
or maybe it was some kind of piggyback wiring for something else, like a powered footswitch for that amp?
(which i dont have or need)

BigMonka

So that two-pin female connector is at the end of the black cable, where does the end of the blue cable go?

Fazer

the grey (the camera has 'corrected' it to blue) is hardwired into the back of the amp.

so the grey/blue cable hardwired from amp into uk standard plug, and then there is that (longish) black cable sharing the blue/brown inside the plug and ending in the 2-pin female

Fazer

closeup of black 2-pin

steamabacus

My guess is that the black cable was for some echo or fx unit that sat on top of the amp.

mart

Yep, it'll have been the mains cable for some other device. Definitely time to remove that cable and just have the amp cable going into the mains plug, and nothing else.

Fazer

yep.
whats the right fuse for a 100w ss amp?

BigMonka

1A or 3A would be fine.

ICBM

3A.

1A is both too low (it could easily blow on the start-up surge or if the amp is cranked into distortion in the output section) and not a standard approved fuse value.