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Re: AC/DC Adapters

To: PJ McGarvey <pj_mcgarvey@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: AC/DC Adapters
From: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 12:07:06 -0400 (EDT)
Howdy,

On Wed, 17 May 2006, PJ McGarvey wrote:
> We left our baby monitor charger at the vacation house, and of course 
> the battery is out of charge now.  So I searched the house and my bin of 
> old parts, and found one adapter for a cordless phone cradle that might 
> work. It's 9V output, 210mA.  The baby monitor female plug just says 
> "9V" on it. AND the adapter plug fits perfectly.  The monitor battery 
> states 2.4V 700mAh.  So will this work?

Plug it in and find out.

:-)

the 700mAh on the battery is a rating of capacity I think, while the power 
supply's 210mA is a rating of load.  The question is what load the battery 
can supply.  I suspect it probably isn't really any more than 210mA, but 
that's a _complete_ guess.

I'd try it.

Mark




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