Braille Lite 2000

Category: Garage Sale

Post 1 by Fallen_Angel (Generic Zoner) on Monday, 20-Apr-2015 15:25:37

Hi,

does anyone have an AC adapter for a Braille Lite 2000? Bit of a long shot, but you never know...

Thanks! :)

Post 2 by Remy (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Monday, 20-Apr-2015 15:28:49

Wow, there's a piece of hardware I ahven't thought of in years. You still have one that works? Wow. Anyway I don't, but shouldn't you be able to figure out the voltage the machine requires and just buy an adapter? I'm sure you can buy AC adapters.

Post 3 by Grand_Admiral_Thrawn (Veteran Zoner) on Friday, 01-May-2015 17:11:46

no, you can't just buy them. I tried doing that for my first gen Victor Reader
but no one had the voltage for it.

Post 4 by GreenTurtle (Music is life. Love. Vitality.) on Friday, 01-May-2015 18:27:07

On the Blazie line of products, some of them required 12 volt chargers, and some of them 9 volts, if memory serves. It was written in Braille on the transformer.
I would be careful about going and getting any adapter, though, because I would think these are probably proprietary in some way, like their disk drives. Or maybe I'm talking out of my ass, because I don't even know if it would be possible to make something like that proprietary.
Anyway, good luck in finding one, however you do it.

Post 5 by ADVOCATOR! (Finally getting on board!) on Thursday, 07-May-2015 14:15:29

You can only use the chargers set up for them. I tried using other chargers.
I will see if I have a 12-Volt charger, geared for the Braillelite. Let me go through that nightmare I call a storage unit.
Blessings!
Sarah/HW

Post 6 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Monday, 11-May-2015 18:48:06

GreenTurtle it is entirely possible to make such a charger proprietary. Volts is only one part of the power equation. You have voltage -- how much power -- and amperage -- how fast the electrons move / how strong it is, for just a couple.
Add to that if the unit itself doesn't have the limiting circuit, but the charger is supposed to ...

Oh yes, there are a ton of ways to do a charging bric / wall wart, probably enough that would put most people to sleep by the explanations.

I've got wall warts too for a lot of things, but this is why I like the new USB chargers and multichargers.