Thread: Another way to charge the PE??
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Old 07-08-2011, 05:05 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by emusan View Post
He does have a point though, if you wanted to charge this off a pc(which will put out max .5A), you wont get 12V at any reasonable amount of Amperage, its just not physically possible lol. I thought you may be referring to a wall->USB adapter which can put out more, but now if I think of it it does sound kinda dumb given that you already have a wall adapter lol. You can do it, it just wont charge fast(or even at all).
There are some very compact units that take mains power and have both USB and 12v output - at least over here in Europe, problem is I don't think they will run off US 115 v AC.
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