We offer a selection of the best home coffee roasters and we receive occasional orders for them from customers outside the USA. All of our home roasters are powered by electricity and electric supply varies by country. The USA electric supply is 120 volts, 60 hertz. The following countries have the same electric supply although in some cases plug configuration may differ:<\/p>\n
American Samoa
\nBahamas
\nBermuda
\nCanada
\nCayman Islands
\nCosta Rica
\nEcuador
\nGuatemala
\nMicronesia
\nNicaragua
\nPalau
\nVenezuela<\/p>\n
In other words, roasters made for the US market should work in this group of countries without modification.<\/p>\n
Please understand that home coffee roasters, particularly those with timed roasting cycles like Behmor and Hottop, have a defined maximum period during which roasting must complete.\u00a0 This feature is designed for your safety.\u00a0 If the voltage supply is not sufficient than you will run out of time before roasting completes; if there is too much voltage than internal parts may burn up, destroying your roaster.\u00a0 Roasters purchased from us have guarantees for the US only so any purchase for use out of country is not covered.<\/p>\n
Roasters heading anywhere else in the world will either not work or may<\/em>, in some cases, work with voltage regulation and plug adapters.\u00a0 The very best thing that you can do is purchase a roaster that was built for your electric supply rather than buying one made for another country and attempting to convert it.\u00a0 This latter approach usually leads to dissatisfaction.<\/p>\n It is critical to deliver the correct voltage and frequency (hertz) to your roaster.\u00a0 Even if it’s made for the US market there are many locations and situations when voltage is inadequate.\u00a0 During summer heat waves electric companies reduce the output of the electric grid and voltage will drop to save electricity.\u00a0 Also, for voltage sensitive equipment you should not use an extension cord which will reduce the delivered voltage; plug the appliance directly into a wall socket.\u00a0 You can use a voltage regulator to even out and to some extent boost voltage moderately.\u00a0 For example, if your voltage supply is 117 volts (a simple volt meter or Kill-a-Watt device will inform you) you can set use a voltage regulator, like the Variac that we sell, to increase voltage to 120 and the device will keep the supply steady.\u00a0 The frequency of electricity, expressed in Hertz, must be matched to the electric supply.\u00a0 Otherwise timing of motors and clock\/timers, where applicable, will not function properly.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We offer a selection of the best home coffee roasters and we receive occasional orders for them from customers outside the USA. All of our home roasters are powered by electricity and electric supply varies by country. The USA electric supply is 120 volts, 60 hertz. The following countries have the same electric supply although […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}