waricle Posted June 2, 2013 Posted June 2, 2013 I read this in a pro audio blog and have implemented it at home, -use a fine-tipped whiteout correction pen to label all your different wall-warts for easy inentification. I have collected dozens over the years and and many of them are dedicated to a single purpose. These mini transformers breed like coathangers!!!
daemon d Posted June 2, 2013 Posted June 2, 2013 damn, I wish I though of that before I moved house last year. I have a box of those little black roaches that I can't match to their kit. I wish the manufacturers would have spent an extra 2 cents and had them labelled, but too late now.
NT3 Posted June 2, 2013 Posted June 2, 2013 Yes good tip, the stinking things multiply like fleas on a dogs back. Labelled mine with a white marker pen and was the best thing I ever did.
LogicprObe Posted June 2, 2013 Posted June 2, 2013 That is a good idea. I have a box full of the bastards. I had a cull a couple of weeks ago and threw out about 10 of them.
Quelch Posted June 15, 2013 Posted June 15, 2013 What a great idea I have a forest of 'wall-warts' on a shelf under my computer desk all plugged into power boards, have to trace the wires back to the component they power each time I need to unplug anything Next time I need to crawl under there I'll start labelling them
Monkeyboi Posted June 15, 2013 Posted June 15, 2013 Started doing that a while ago, saves a lot of pain Yep, nothing more painful than plugging in a 12v PSU into a device intended to take 5v with reverse polarity. So many devices have input sockets that are the same size, so having a senior's moment and forgetting to check which PSU goes with what device can lead to the "special" smoke getting out. Once that smoke gets out you have to, as ZB would say, "Send it to the man...." Cheers, Alan R.
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