Cool thing to share about Kindle's charger cord
Sorry for taking space if it's obvious, but I realized this today and as a thanks for all the help I get on these boards thought I'd share.
The Kindle 3's charging cord - as I know we all know - has a wall plug that one removes to charge via USB. Wanted to charge my Kindle AND my Archos video player for which I also have a USB charger. Was worried (probably unnecessarily) about using two usbs to simultaneously charge, mostly that they would be trickle charges, and the video player already takes for-ever to charge. So I thought WTF and plugged archos USB into kindle's wall plug and plugged into wall.
Bingo! AFAICT it's charging just fine and dandy.
In short, that nice little plug MAY make virtually any USB charge-able device able to charge off wall.
If any electrical engineers or hobby makers who know this field can tell us yay or nay, please chime in!
Alley
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