Hey Dan, It?s news to me that any pcmcia card would require an external adapter for power, including the card you reference.
Very strange. Ward Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 1041 Bardstown Road Louisville, KY 40204 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us http://www.mactown.us From: Dan Crutcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 14:42:40 -0500 To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: MacGroup: AC Adaptor for Firewire card For the electrically savvy MacGroupers: I have an OrangeLink Firewire PC Card that I use with a Powerbook G4 that has a dead Firewire port. In order to connect some devices that require Firewire power, I must connect an AC adaptor to this card. The manual says that I need an adaptor that meets the following specs: Output 12V - 30V, 1 amp, positive tip. I have an adaptor that would fit the adaptor port on the Firewiire card, but its specs are: Output 12VDC, 1200 mA. There is also a symbol representing polarity that looks something like: _ _ _ ( - )-------( o -------( + ) (The two outside symbols are circles, the left one has a minus sign, the right one a positive sign. The middle symbol is a semicircle, with the right side missing.) My question: Would this adaptor work with my Firewire card? The only difference seems to be that this adaptor is 1200 mA rather than 1 amp. (I'm assuming that 1 amp = 1000mA.) I'm guessing that the symbols mean that the polarity is positive. What say ye? Would using a 1200 mA adaptor on a device that calls for 1000 mA work? Would it fry the device if I tried it? | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20031228/298f6e52/attachment.html
