johngooch Posted May 9, 2014 Report Share Posted May 9, 2014 Has anybody used a non ipower charger to charge their ipower batteries? Does such a unit exist? I'd like to charge more than four at a time and the wall warts are a hassle. j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fieldmixer Posted May 9, 2014 Report Share Posted May 9, 2014 You mean the hassle that is the inevitable cable failure at the base of the wall wort? Cheapest wall wart ever. Shame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen Deakin Posted May 9, 2014 Report Share Posted May 9, 2014 Just cut the wall warts off. Join the cables to 4 pin XLR. Plug in to DC power supply problem solved. I have 2 I power 9v chargers and 2 I power AA chargers joined to 1 xlr and just use an 12v power supply that I had kicking around Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek H Posted May 9, 2014 Report Share Posted May 9, 2014 You could try this: http://www.all-battery.com/tn347_tn346combos.aspx I have one of these chargers and 6 of their brand 9 volts. The build quality of the batteries is crappy (foil peeling off) but the charger is decent. I have tried charging iPowers in it and it seems to work fine but you'd have to do some testing to find out if it really works well. No wall wart! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProSound Posted May 9, 2014 Report Share Posted May 9, 2014 I have chargers that are 7 or 8 years old that still work fine. I have only had two break on me and on both of them just 1 bay stop working. For the price they have faired way better then I expected Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundtrane Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Hi John, I have been using iPower chargers with the supplied wall wart for 7 years now, and they are still going strong. Of course i DON'T use the wall wart too often (maybe about 10-12 times so far), because my iPower charger on the cart feeds off the big Pelican battery through a PSC Cartpower distributor. I would advise you to just buy the best possible 12V 1 - 1.5A wall wart and solder in a DC jack from Switchcraft, if possible make two of them and you should be all set. I know you are so far away from me out here, otherwise i would have whipped this up for you in a jiffy... -vin PS: MORE BATTERIES - i have seen an 8-bay charger i think Tenergy, but i don't know how good it is. I never needed an 8-bay 9V charger - as yet! My first ipower charger gave way recently - one of the 4 bays stopped working. Otherwise they have been very reliable, in fact i charge my Chinese 'Litelong 680 mA Li-Ion batteries' on them - 3 months of shoot with these batteries and the ipower charger (of course connected to DC 12V on my cart) and it was all very smooth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G Murphy Posted May 20, 2014 Report Share Posted May 20, 2014 My original I-power wall wart lasted a few years and then had the cable failure while I was out on the road. Needed something quick so I went to the local Radio Shack and got this. At $30 it wasn't cheap and probably could have bought a soldering iron to fix the old wart. But it's been working well for about two years so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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