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Originally Posted by Fortissimo
I guess that's why my charger get's slightly warm during use. It must be working at full capacity.
But delphin, say you charge your reader with a 500mA cellphone charger, is there any risk of damage to your reader? Or perhaps to the battery?
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Lot's of folks using 700mA to 750mA Cell Phone chargers so those are probably fine.
On a lower current rated charger, chances are that you would have at least some warning that the Sony was not charging properly, and was not happy, but possibly not, so no point in taking chances when you and get a full 1000mA to 1500mA charger on Amazon for about $10
An overloaded charger could do lots of unpredictable things -
1) It could just fail right away.
2) It could work perfectly for some time then fail.
3) It could trigger a safety shutdown circuit and turn off.
4) It could shutdown, reset and work , shutdown, reset and work, shutdown, reset . . .
5) It could just continue to work but produce a very poorly regulated voltage.
The last two possibilities are the main ones you would have to worry about.
Presumably the Sony also has some kind of voltage monitoring and shutdown if it doesn't like what it's seeing, but their are no guarantees that this is the case, so it doesn't pay to take chances.