[Wolves] Much difference between 4.5v and 5v?

[Mo Awkati]

 --- sparkes <sparkes at phreaker.net> wrote: > On Tue,
2004-03-16 at 21:12, Matthew Revell wrote:
> > Mo Awkati wrote:
> > 
> > >The lower voltage would not have cooked your
> router,
> > >however the current it delivers might have. For
> > >example you could have 4.5v but .125 amps or 4.5v
> but
> > >1 amp. So check the voltage as well as the
> current
> > >rating. It may just need resetting. usually there
> is a
> > >small hole which you can poke a paperclip end
> through
> > >and press the reset button, this action will
> restore
> > >factory settings. 
> > >  
> > >
> > Cheers for that Mo. I've just - finally - found my
> router's tech specs 
> > on the (it's an unbadged box, so its was a
> struggle). It takes 5v and 
> > 2.5 A  in. I've been giving 4.7v and, well, the
> adaptor says 
> > "300mA3.6VA(MAX)". So, I guess it's somewhere
> between those two.
> 2.5 Amps is one hell of a lot for a simple little
> bit of kit ;-) so the
> chances are you haven't cooked the circuits with
> your little adaptor.
> 
> What you will need is one of the larger multi
> voltage adaptors.  That is
> unless you can find a decent replacement without
> going the multi voltage
> way.  Oh and when I say larger they are larger the
> simple pound shop
> jobby might have the push but hasn't got the width
> and I here that is
> the story of your life ;-)
> 
> I replaced an old zip drive adaptor with one of
> these about 5 years back
> and it was a hell of a lot cheaper than the real
> deal.  In fact I
> believe I already owned it and had previously used
> it on a portable tv
> so that shows to kind of thing you might be looking
> at.
> 
> I would have recommended rooting about in the bins
> at the old Waltons
> store but that doesn't exist any more (fond memories
> of buying obsolete
> crap and interfacing it to other obsolete crap, in
> fact that's where the
> credit card reader/writer I spoke about last week
> was from), I would
> then have said check out Tandy but that has gone
> too.  It looks like
> stopping off at maplins in Brierly Hill on your way
> home one night. 
> It's just after the Merry Hill Centre.  
> 
> You could even do it on a Lug night and give Mr S
> Chain a lift over here
> 
> sparkes
> 

Sparkes is right do hunt around, but Maplins are OK.

Mo


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