A question for the electronics geeks amongst us

[thewayne]

I got my repaired laptop back, they replaced the main board. We'll see if the hard drive is still flaky, fortunately I have a 100gig laptop HD sitting in reserve.

There's only one problem: they didn't send back the charger, and they're closed over the weekend.

Here's the issue. My wife has an old IBM Thinkpad. The power input for my laptop is rated at 16VDC at 4.5 amps. My wife's power supply delivers 16VDC at 3.4 amps. So I'm thinking that if I used my wife's power supply to charge my battery while the laptop was not running that I'd probably be OK. Since there's no fuse or circuit breaker for the power supplies, I don't think I want to risk my wife's by trying to power and charge my laptop at the same time. I haven't checked polarity yet, but I'm pretty confident that they're consistent.

Comments?

Comments

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the problem is that even if they find it (they didn't list it on the sheet showing what they received) the earliest I could expect it back if they overnighted the thing would be Tuesday or Wednesday. I might just limp on with my old laptop.

Sucks all around. Thank your hubby for me!

[dreamsinvelvet.livejournal.com]

Anytime! :)