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Power supplies

It's an occupational hazard: I test a lot of electronic equipment, and I have a ton of electronic stuff in the house. A lot of the gear uses external power supplies that have bulky transformer packs that plug into walls.

Another problem is that almost all of these external power supplies are sourced from cheap Chinese suppliers, and they're not labeled for the equipment they're designed to be used with. The labels denote the power supply's basic characters, such as voltage and amperage, and manufacturing details, but nothing else.

The problem I'm left with is that I have boxes of these power supplies and I have no idea what they connect to.

I've realized the problem too late to label most of them, and now am trying to figure out what to do.

Anyone have suggestions?

Comments

I gave up and finally just pitched a whole box of unknown power supplies. I figured anything I was using was plugged in. Kind of sad but I didn't have time/inclination to try to sort them out :(

My father has been importing components from several countries in Asia for decades. From the stories he's told me, those components are made cheap mainly because the manufactures cut corners everywhere they can, what results in very substandard products. I'd say the obscure adapters can present a major fire hazard on top of being an occupational hazard.

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