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    AC Adapter Question

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by exernet, Aug 3, 2007.

  1. exernet

    exernet Notebook Guru

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    I'm at a relatives house for the weekend and I forgot my AC Adapter for my A8JS at home. They have an AC Adapter for their Toshiba and Gateway laptop and I was thinking about using one to charge my laptop as they look very similar. I wanted to check here first to see if this is a bad idea. Are their any possible bad effects of using a 3rd party laptop AC Adapter?
     
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    Patrick Formerly beat spamers with stiks

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    Check if they are the same voltage
     
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    The gateway adapter is 19V output, Toshiba is 15V.

    I'm not sure what my adapter is, but on the bottom of my laptop it says +19V for input or something.

    Use the gateway?
     
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    Someone with more experience needs to help you with this. I'm Sorry, its just not my area of expertise. IF i was to guess, the gateway should provide enough power to charge, but maybe not for cpu intensive tasks. Someone probly with correct me, but thats ok.
     
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    Alright, thank you for your input, I really appreciate it.

    I did plug it in, the battery left icon in my taskbar disappeared so I assume it's charging. The only thing I'm worried about is damaging my laptop, so if anyone else has any insight, please do tell.
     
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    When I was in Taiwan and the tech guy was setting up my laptop, he just took one of the nearby AC adapters from a different laptop brand and plugged it in. I was a little shocked when he did that. However, I guess he does it everyday and my laptop seems fine so far...so it might be fine. Just my two cents.
     
    FFT, Aug 4, 2007
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