Do you have a big box of Wall Warts too?

[Howdy Doody Time]

I just raided my big box of PSU's/Wall Warts and found a suitable one, as usual. How did I acquire all these? Does it mean I broke a huge number of gadgets and salvaged them for future use? OK I've had them for years and years, so I must have done I suppose.

Do You have a box of these too?

PS, I'm getting very forgetful, and I mean very forgetful, to the point of wondering where I put down my mug of tea, or screwdriver or whatever.

[Essex Boi]

To the occasional annoyance of my partner I’m a bit of a hoarder - wall warts, plugs, cables, knobs, bolts, washers, screws, hard drives, circuit boards, various machines and obsolete devices waiting for a new life, etc. However, there’s a certain satisfaction when something breaks and I can say “I think I’ve got a spare one of those”. Though remembering which box in which room I’ve put it is a whole different challenge.

[Folderol]

I know where all of mine are... Well, down to the nearest room (or cellar), but not necessarily which drawer or box

[Arpangel]

I have a big one too, and I can never find what I want in it.

[ef37a]

Me too!
I have a sort out now and again but rarely throw anything out. I have to some degree tried to be more systematic with the rats. I have many of them "Dymo'ed" with V&I rating and where brain has engaged, the bit of kit they originally came with.

I am pleased to see that the EU (world?) is urging manufacturers to make PSUs optional and standardized on the USB C connector. The pedal industry will however stay with co-ax forever I guess. I just wish they would agree on a connector size!

I know some reviewers are agin' external supplies but they do make much gear cheaper and universal.

Dave.

[shufflebeat]

...I have to some degree tried to be more systematic with the rats. I have many of them "Dymo'ed" with V&I rating and where brain has engaged, the bit of kit they originally came with.

This is one of the many reasons I come here.

Peace, brother.

[ceejay]

... I threw everything out more than twenty years ago when we moved overseas ... now I am in exactly the same boat ...

[OneWorld]

I'm getting to the stage where I am getting bigger boxes to contain the boxes I already have. That said on the occasion, usually when selling something, I search high and low for a wall-wart that is the manufacturer's wall-wart for a given piece of equipment - and can I find it - nah, search high and low, east and west, and under and asunder, so I have to sell the equipment with a 'generic' wall-wart I have found in my box.

And then sure enough, every now and again I decide to have a hoover-up, clean and tidy my desk etc and the first thing I put my hand on is the missing manufacturer's wall-wart which before I could not find even though I'd searched to the extent of a police SOC being done.

I think before long, the wall-wart box is going to have to go in the shed, the confounded things are all over the place now. I come across and I think - bin it, take a leap of faith and do it, get rid, but then I think "Yes but, might just come in handy" and they end up under the desk, in a drawer, plonked on a pile of musical bric-a-brac. I have got more wall-warts lay about than I have songs waiting to be finished or flung out

[James Perrett]

I used to have a box full of them but they've become a bit depleted now that our lad can make use of them for his gadgets. In fact, I've even had to buy a couple of new ones when I couldn't find something suitable in the box.

[The Elf]

Yes, I do. All labelled. Been in that nightmare, never going there again.

[Drew Stephenson]

Actually no. I do have a wall-wart and a line-rat in a box in the garage but they're for specific things. And I've got one in a drawer but that's for the hard drive that's in the same drawer.

[Folderol]

Actually no. I do have a wall-wart and a line-rat in a box in the garage but they're for specific things. And I've got one in a drawer but that's for the hard drive that's in the same drawer.

ha! There's always one, isn't there

[ef37a]

Actually no. I do have a wall-wart and a line-rat in a box in the garage but they're for specific things. And I've got one in a drawer but that's for the hard drive that's in the same drawer.

ha! There's always one, isn't there

Too true! Haw do you access that hard drive Drew? Wi fi or telepathy?

Dave.

[Drew Stephenson]

Too true! Haw do you access that hard drive Drew? Wi fi or telepathy?

Dave.

It's a back-up drive, so it gets pulled out once a month or so to be updated then it's back in the draw.

It's not that I don't have wallwarts / line lumps, I can see five from where I'm sitting right now, it's just they're all in use. I think this comes back to the point in the 'clear out' thread that I just don't have anything that's not regularly in use. I tend to take a long while choosing whether to buy something and I have to be convinced that I'll get my money's worth from it.
So I don't tend to have stuff that's been moved on or fallen out of use or anything like that. It's either here and working or it's died and gone to the tip.

[Sam Spoons]

Yes...

[Watchmaker]

nope. I use console tape and label every one of them when I get new gear. Plus, I keep them always together with their intended device.

I can't read print the size of cockroach footprints.

[RichardT]

Used to have quite a few, but I’ve got rid of a lot of unused gear in preparation for downsizing, and now I’ve got next to none.

[Albatross]

I don't, but I do have a big wall of wart boxes which house my collection of removed warts. Next shelf along from the extracted teeth boxes.

[resistorman]

Sure do, mostly labeled, some dating back 30 years or more... and strange voltages too. Just yesterday I decided to mount my DMM, which takes 3-AAA batteries, on the wall and pulled out a 4.5 volt jobber. Next to it was a 3V Roland branded one with the tiniest coaxial plug I've ever seen. I have absolutely no idea where it came from. I used to run a repair shop, so many came from deceased gear. As long as the V and ma match and it's decent build quality, who cares where they come from

[ef37a]

Sure do, mostly labeled, some dating back 30 years or more... and strange voltages too. Just yesterday I decided to mount my DMM, which takes 3-AAA batteries, on the wall and pulled out a 4.5 volt jobber. Next to it was a 3V Roland branded one with the tiniest coaxial plug I've ever seen. I have absolutely no idea where it came from. I used to run a repair shop, so many came from deceased gear. As long as the V and ma match and it's decent build quality, who cares where they come from

The charger to my Nokia phone is only a smell over 1mm and very rare. I bought a coax adapter kit but none was as small. Then I found a USB to the same plug cable which I can use in the car.
I use the Nokia 201 almost only for texts as I cannot get on with my blasted smart phone!

Dave.

[OneWorld]

Sure do, mostly labeled, some dating back 30 years or more... and strange voltages too. Just yesterday I decided to mount my DMM, which takes 3-AAA batteries, on the wall and pulled out a 4.5 volt jobber. Next to it was a 3V Roland branded one with the tiniest coaxial plug I've ever seen. I have absolutely no idea where it came from. I used to run a repair shop, so many came from deceased gear. As long as the V and ma match and it's decent build quality, who cares where they come from

The charger to my Nokia phone is only a smell over 1mm and very rare. I bought a coax adapter kit but none was as small. Then I found a USB to the same plug cable which I can use in the car.
I use the Nokia 201 almost only for texts as I cannot get on with my blasted smart phone!

Dave.

Yes I got one of those critters, with the teeny weeny plug on the charger, and I still have the phone, which I too am thinking of going back to. I am on Smartphone number 3 now. The first one wasn't too bad, but nowadays, after a few years the batteries just pack in, used to hold a charge up to about 3 days, now I am lucky if I get a day out of a charge. Puzzling thing is, the fast battery draining seemed to occur overnight - one day worked fine, next day it started playing up. I have done all the 'fixes' suggested on YouTube, makes no difference, but I am sure the issue began after an update.

Then t'other day I came across the Nokia and the charger and thought "Do I really need a smartphone - just for text, phone and email? not really"

I am convinced they are manufacturing smartphones to pack in after 3 or 4 years, they fix it so the battery packs in - one reason not to buy an electric car! No way

[nathanscribe]

Yes, I do. All labelled. Been in that nightmare, never going there again.

Aren't yours all inside the synths they came with?

I've got a pile of shoeboxes full of supplies and random cables, none of which I ever seem to be the right type when I need one.

Everything's labelled though. All hail the Dymo embosser!

[The Elf]

Yes, I do. All labelled. Been in that nightmare, never going there again.

Aren't yours all inside the synths they came with?

Yep, that's why these spares are in a box!

[sonics]

Everything's labelled though. All hail the Dymo embosser!

My Dymo Rhino labeler was one of my best purchases. I don't know why I waited so long to buy it!