On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:52 PM, <arcarlini at iee.org> wrote:
That said, I _do_ dislike the fact that they are often
glued together
rather than screwed together
Hammer.
... I've certainly rescued devices in the past by
swapping
a cable from a dead wart onto a different but power-compatible one and
that's considerably harder these days!
If you can't get it open, you can still splice the old cable on the
new wart. I'll be pedantic and recommend heat shrink over electrical
tape - it doesn't turn to goo and melt off. Masking tape is *right
out* (but I've seen lots of it covering splices).
I also dislike the fact that all the warts get mixed
up and it takes me
ages to find the one that goes with the $foo I want to work with.
I have a paint marker and routinely mark what device the wart goes
with, and mark the device with a sharpie when the manufacturer hasn't
bothered to mark the outside of the device with what power the wart
supplies.
-ethan