These things must be available SOMEWHERE! Help! :D
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I'm going to take a wild stab that nobody has asked this before! 
I've spent way too much time trying to find these and i'M just hitting brick walls, so I thought I'd throw it out to the PH mindhive in the hope that somebody actually knows where I can buy these things - because they must be available somewhere... right? 
FWIW they are for a motorola walkie talkie charger - I have plenty of plugs, but the wrong insert - I need the one on the right. A whole charger, as you can imagine, is rather expensive and seems pointless when I have all but the right plug insert
I've spent way too much time trying to find these and i'M just hitting brick walls, so I thought I'd throw it out to the PH mindhive in the hope that somebody actually knows where I can buy these things - because they must be available somewhere... right? FWIW they are for a motorola walkie talkie charger - I have plenty of plugs, but the wrong insert - I need the one on the right. A whole charger, as you can imagine, is rather expensive and seems pointless when I have all but the right plug insert
Charger supply shouldn't be expensive. I assume it's a 9V or 12V DC output with a regular 5.5 mm plug?
This looks close: https://www.direct-radios.co.uk/product/motorola-u...
Any generic wall supply should so. The current, voltage and top polarity will be shown on the old charger. (Beware that there's a lot of non-standard DC plug sizes out there that almost fit, but don't...)
This looks close: https://www.direct-radios.co.uk/product/motorola-u...
Any generic wall supply should so. The current, voltage and top polarity will be shown on the old charger. (Beware that there's a lot of non-standard DC plug sizes out there that almost fit, but don't...)
silentbrown said:
Charger supply shouldn't be expensive. I assume it's a 9V or 12V DC output with a regular 5.5 mm plug?
This looks close: https://www.direct-radios.co.uk/product/motorola-u...
Any generic wall supply should so. The current, voltage and top polarity will be shown on the old charger. (Beware that there's a lot of non-standard DC plug sizes out there that almost fit, but don't...)
I don't think it's like that. I had these (not sure where they are now) and the "charger" is a base that you drop the two walkie talkies into where they connect with proprietary pins on the back of each handset. The base is then hardwired into a low voltage lead with a mains plug on the end, which is also generic and then has these adapters that slide on for different mains plug types. The handsets don't have any way to charge apart from being dropped into the base (no sockets on them).This looks close: https://www.direct-radios.co.uk/product/motorola-u...
Any generic wall supply should so. The current, voltage and top polarity will be shown on the old charger. (Beware that there's a lot of non-standard DC plug sizes out there that almost fit, but don't...)
How permanent and how publicly accessible does the solution need to be?
I would suggest that you could likely achieve the same thing with a bare socket and wiring those pins directly onto the charger body, with an ample wrapping of electrical tape - Not that I’d want to leave it for anyone to touch.
As suggested though, my first solution would be to bypass the brick - If you’ve got the input and output put specifications from the respective devices
(The brick should have something like - Output ?V ?.?A DC )
Once you have that, it’s just a matter of sifting through the box in the loft for one that has the same numbers and same plug - Sometimes, similar numbers and / or similar plug will work.
Speaking of box in the loft, I’ve probably got one of these plug adapters in the hoarde of ‘this charger might go with something so I’d best not get rid of it’ box
I would suggest that you could likely achieve the same thing with a bare socket and wiring those pins directly onto the charger body, with an ample wrapping of electrical tape - Not that I’d want to leave it for anyone to touch.
As suggested though, my first solution would be to bypass the brick - If you’ve got the input and output put specifications from the respective devices
(The brick should have something like - Output ?V ?.?A DC )
Once you have that, it’s just a matter of sifting through the box in the loft for one that has the same numbers and same plug - Sometimes, similar numbers and / or similar plug will work.
Speaking of box in the loft, I’ve probably got one of these plug adapters in the hoarde of ‘this charger might go with something so I’d best not get rid of it’ box
Mr Pointy said:
I suspect you would need to work from the supplier's (probably not Motorola's) part number for the charger. It's not clear though - do you have the UK 3 pin insert & are looking for the US or Euro insert? I would say a new charger is the only way you will get the item you are after.
I have 3 pin inserts - the one on the left, but I need the one on the right and it seems impossible to find... ARH said:
I would just check the power ratings on the original PSU and buy an equivalent. Cut and join the wires, from the new PSU to the desk stand thing. Its low voltage so not going to kill you, only thing of concern is getting the polarity correct.
This might be the smart solution if I can find a super cheap plug that matches the power settings! Haltamer said:
How permanent and how publicly accessible does the solution need to be?
I would suggest that you could likely achieve the same thing with a bare socket and wiring those pins directly onto the charger body, with an ample wrapping of electrical tape - Not that I d want to leave it for anyone to touch.
As suggested though, my first solution would be to bypass the brick - If you ve got the input and output put specifications from the respective devices
(The brick should have something like - Output ?V ?.?A DC )
Once you have that, it s just a matter of sifting through the box in the loft for one that has the same numbers and same plug - Sometimes, similar numbers and / or similar plug will work.
Speaking of box in the loft, I ve probably got one of these plug adapters in the hoarde of this charger might go with something so I d best not get rid of it box
We all have boxes like that right! I would suggest that you could likely achieve the same thing with a bare socket and wiring those pins directly onto the charger body, with an ample wrapping of electrical tape - Not that I d want to leave it for anyone to touch.
As suggested though, my first solution would be to bypass the brick - If you ve got the input and output put specifications from the respective devices
(The brick should have something like - Output ?V ?.?A DC )
Once you have that, it s just a matter of sifting through the box in the loft for one that has the same numbers and same plug - Sometimes, similar numbers and / or similar plug will work.
Speaking of box in the loft, I ve probably got one of these plug adapters in the hoarde of this charger might go with something so I d best not get rid of it box
I'll get around to that at some point.These are being sold on via ebay but didn't come with enough correct chargers - and I think I'm finding out why now!
trackdemon said:
ARH said:
I would just check the power ratings on the original PSU and buy an equivalent. Cut and join the wires, from the new PSU to the desk stand thing. Its low voltage so not going to kill you, only thing of concern is getting the polarity correct.
This might be the smart solution if I can find a super cheap plug that matches the power settings! Mr Pointy said:
Give us a chance - put up some pictures showing the charger, any writing on it, the base & pins. At the moment all we have is a picture of the back of what you want, more pictures of what you don't want & we still don't know if you want Euro or US or something else.
This is fair! I'll get some more detailed pics in the next few hours to explain more clearly 
trackdemon said:
It seems to be mini usb - and I've tried it on usb, doesn't work, presumably because no usb charger is the right voltage.
USB is always 5v supply, but current may vary.The PSU should have a label on it saying what current/voltage it supplies. USB ports on a PC typically only proviude 500ma IIRC.
Try a different USB supply and/or cable.
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