Battery Charging

[Radius]

Problem:

Device charges battery through USB connectionwith computer.

Is there some sort of adapter that I can plug that USB into so it can charge the battery through the normal electricity net?

[Rice_King]

I think you're looking for something like this.

reference page: http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/176664/art...et-charger.html

[yeti]

I bought this one recently, build quality is not great, but it's cheap.

Be careful to buy a model with enough power.

[Radius]

Aaah, cool.

Thanks a lot.

[jeffer]

When you go to places like Pantip take a look in the shops that have boxes of parts all over the shop floor. I have the one pictured by Rice King ($6 in Singapore) but I found a smaller, slimmer version with flat retractable prongs only yesterday, 50 baht at IT Square and recharges my MP3 player just fine.

[Crossy]

Pantip et al have boxes of them at about 50 Baht or so. Dead handy for all those things with USB chargers.

The ones I have are marked as 5v 100mA, to be honest I've not measured the output but they seem to work ok charging my iPod and Bluetooth headphones .

[jeffer]

Input: AC 110-220v 50/60Hz AC10mA

Output:DC 5.00V +/-5% DC 200-300mA +/-30mA

I've noticed in Singapore there are different versions, $6, $13 and $20. The $20 ones are all white and shiny so priced to sell to iPod owners I suppose.

I have a Creative MP3 player and on the Creative website they were selling the charger for $49.99 which was half the cost of the player

Hardware House were promoting the same player recently with a free USB charger that looked the same from memory but valuing it at only 199 baht (SD$9)...