Garmin GPS - Re: Forerunner 201 GPS : homemade power supply?

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Re: Forerunner 201 GPS : homemade power supply?

Rob Falconer

2005-05-19, 12:22 pm

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:10:42 +0100, "Francois G" <news_a1@cekoia.com>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a Forerunner 201 with the 120V power supply. I just moved to Europe
>where they only have 220V.
>
>1)
>Is it possible to just cut the cable of the 110V-5V converter and replace it
>with a 220V-5v converter? Or is there something else to take into account.
>
>2)
>How forgiving is the foreunner? In other words, has someone succesfully
>used a slightly different voltage (i.e. 5.7V instead of 5V) . If so , this
>would be great : I could use my cell phone power supply to recharge my
>forerunner.
>
>Thanks for your help,
>
>FG
>
Did this to mine, and it worked just fine. Cut off the power supply,
and wired the forerunner cable to a uk power supply(via a mini-jack
plug/socket). No problem.

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