Re: DC plug tip converters?

From: Watson A.Name - \ (NOSPAM_at_dslextreme.com)
Date: 01/17/05 

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:34:20 -0800

"Melissa" <melissa@colorado.xxx> wrote in message
news:41eacfb3$1_3@omega.dimensional.com...
> Ken <user@domain.invalid> wrote :
>
> > Melissa wrote:
> >> Ken <user@domain.invalid> wrote :
> >>
> >>
> >>>Melissa wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>I have a universal ac adapter with one size plug tip and I want to
> >>>>plug it into something that takes a smaller sized plug tip.
Without
> >>>>having to buy a whole new adapter power pack, does anyone know
where I
> >>>>can just get a inexpensive package of plug tip adapters, that
could
> >>>>change one size plug into another?

> >>> Try Radio Shack.

> >> I did, all they have is their newer models of adapters with all
kinds
> >> of expensive plugs to match. Planned obsolescence so they can rake
you
> >> for more bucks.

> > You may be right, but did you check in the section where the
> > electronic
> > components are located?? There might be a separate section for
power
> > adapters and wall warts, which of course would be more costly.

> I didn't want to have to buy even more power adapters, I have about a
dozen
> of them around here now. I just need to adapt one of the adapters I
have
> now, to the plug that I need it to go into.
>
> Someone somewhere on the web must sell tip adapters to convert one tip
to
> another size. If I new what they were called, I might even find them
cheap
> on Ebay.

Rat Shark sells a pin plug on the end of a 6 foot cord, with bare wires
on the other end. You can leave it that long or cut it off much
shorter, and solder the bare wires onto the end of your adapter. The
pin plug then gives you the ability to purchase ny one of their
adapters, each one having a different letter designation. The pin plug
plugs into the adapter, with the '+' signs matching or not matching if
you want to reverse the polarity. If you can;t find this. then buy the
extension which has a male pin plug on one end and a female on the
other. Just cut off the right end and solder it to the adapter. Use a
short length of heatshrink tubing on each conductor before you solder.
Makes for a neat job.

>From this point on, you should be able to change the adapter end to any
of their universal adapters, assuming they still sell them in the
future. Never really know for certain if they will..

> --

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