I'm wondering if anyone has a suggestion. I bought some vehicular chargers. The cable says 12volt. I hooked the black up to - and the white to +. The charger began smoking! I thought it was the cable, so I tried another charger with another cable. Still smoked. I looked at a neighboring fire dept's hookup. They had their's hooked up the same. I went back and wired to the battery. Still smoked the charger. The vehicle is a 2000 Ford. I have other Motorola mobiles hooked up the same way (via the same power sources) and there has never been any problems.
Any suggestions?
HT600/MT1000 vehicular charger problem?
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Glen W Christen
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an old British car story.....
Electrical devices run on smoke. Wires carry smoke to each device. A lightbulb only uses a little bit of smoke, so the wire leading to it is small. A starter motor uses tons of smoke and that's why the wire is so big leading to it. As long as each device gets a good supply of smoke, it works just fine. The problem is, if some part of the system breaks, it lets the smoke escape and the devices in the circuit no longer work because all of the smoke going to the components is escaping to the atmosphere- and THAT is the peculiar smell we're all familiar with.
(I know.....nobody like a smartass!)
Electrical devices run on smoke. Wires carry smoke to each device. A lightbulb only uses a little bit of smoke, so the wire leading to it is small. A starter motor uses tons of smoke and that's why the wire is so big leading to it. As long as each device gets a good supply of smoke, it works just fine. The problem is, if some part of the system breaks, it lets the smoke escape and the devices in the circuit no longer work because all of the smoke going to the components is escaping to the atmosphere- and THAT is the peculiar smell we're all familiar with.
(I know.....nobody like a smartass!)
