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Title: Voltage question
Post by: Ian Price on April 15, 2010, 04:49:02 PM

Afternoon all. I've got a HP personal media drive that I want to hook up to my laptop. I've lost the power supply for the media drive - it requires 12v/2a. The power supply I have delivers 12v but 2.33 amps. I'm not really up on electrics so can someone tell me if this would cause a problem? I thought that it was the voltage that had to be right but wanted to check before I use it (I've already backed up the media drive on to disk).

Cheers!

Ian.

Title: Re: Voltage question
Post by: tomjackson on April 15, 2010, 05:14:48 PM

As long as the polarity is right I think it will be okay.  The power can supply up to 2.33A but the device will only draw what it requires.

Title: Re: Voltage question
Post by: Frank on April 16, 2010, 02:42:04 AM

what the man said

the power supply can deliver a maximum of 2.33 Amps the the drive will use a maximum of 2 Amps