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Jim,

I did the same thing myself here at home a couple of weeks ago.

I had lost the adapter for my iPaq cradle and tossed on one of the same type
of adapters. It seemed to charge fine so I left it plugged in and went off
to bed. Realizing, 15 minutes later, that I hadn't plugged in my cell phone
I went back downstairs to find that the adapter was actually melting and was
impossible to touch due to the heat.

Bottom line here is to NEVER use another adapter that is not specifically
rated for, both in VOLTAGE and AMPERAGE, the device I need to power. Had I
not forgotten the phone I have no doubt that I would have lost my house and
probably my life!!  Saving the $$ isn't worth it.

BTW, the voltage selector switch on most of the adapters you are describing
do not have a variable, slide type, control but a series of contacts. I
suspect that you are actually connected to one, the other or possibly both
contacts and therefore not really getting what you think you might be.

Toss a meter onto the adapter and make sure the amperage is correct also.

Hope this helps,

Dave Watkins (Not an electrician, but able to cook a desk fine)


 

-----Original Message-----
From: James Hatridge [mailto:James.Hatridge@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 10:07 AM
To: SuSE
Subject: [SLE] Hardware question...

Hi all...

I've got a hub and the transformer burned up. So as a replacement I got the 
type that has multi-value for the volts, ie from 0 to 12v. My hub uses 5v, 
but the transformer has only 4.5 and 6v. I put the dial about between the 
two. It works, but is this good? It also works when I set it at 6v, but
could 
this be too much? Any ideas?

Thanks

JIM
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