• Khanzarate@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Your wall outlet is AC but a battery is DC, so a pure wire setup is not so much a safety thing as it is just incompatible. A good fire starter.

    So you’ll have to convert it, which makes for a big, bulky plug.

    On top of that, you’ll need prior knowledge of the battery layout, including whether they’re parallel or serial. Usually parallel, but not a guarantee.

    All of this isn’t insurmountable, but is enough to make it not the norm. They do, in fact, already exist

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      8 months ago

      Holy crap, I’ll be purchasing that ASAP, guess I just wasn’t able to find them, thank you!

      And yes, I was aware that simply wiring the device directly into the wall wouldn’t work.

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        8 months ago

        There are better ones out there, that one in particular had some iffy reviews about voltages, but yeah they definitely exist.

        I usually see them labeled as “power supply adapter for [AA,AAA,etc]”.

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          8 months ago

          I’ll have to do some research… Wild that I wasn’t able to find them previously.