This has to be a design flaw

EyeMWing

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It takes a 14v DC input for recharging the massage motors. It's also fully rotateable. Last night I was working on a new network service (DVDOD and DVD streaming), and charging the chair. I had 3 stations set up in a circle. My main rig (functioning as the server), my laptop (functioning as the client), and the television (the history channel rawx).

Naturally, my chair was rotated around several times. The wire, naturally, tore right in two. This, of course, is a change from the last time I did this, when the barrell plug itself broke off inside the f'ing jack. Unfortunately, this time, the + and - lines shorted to each other and burnt out the wall wart itself. Does anyone know where I can get a 14v wallwart :eek::disgust:
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
anywhere?

I've looked, everyone and their dog carries up through 9v.

For the sheer quantity of 12v electronics out there, you'd think there'd be more than next-to-none commercially available.

I happen to have one particularly tough 12v wart, intended for an old zip drive. The leads are HUGELY thick, and I can't see it snapping in half under any conceivable force. This would work, but the plug itself is too large to fit the jack on the chair, and if I were to splice in another one, that would add a weak point and the potential for the exact same thing to happen.
 

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There was an episode of CSI where a guy was electrocuted in his massage chair ...
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: Banana
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There was an episode of CSI where a guy was electrocuted in his massage chair ...

I severely doubt that the 12v output from this battery could kill me if a 550w Antec's 12v rail couldn't. This thing puts out a whopping 1A. A decent 350w PSU is like 20A.
 

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Originally posted by: EyeMWingDoes anyone know where I can get a 14v wallwart :eek::disgust:

you might try radio shack. my brother got a power adapter for our transcribing machine, which came with various plugs and I think you could set it to different voltages. or else buy the specific voltage and then it comes with adapters. either way, try radio shack :p
 

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Couldn't you get some kind of low insertion force disconnect plug from radio shack or something and splice it into the wire near the wall? Then, when force is applied to the cord - instead of tearing the cord, the disconnect pops out and saves the wire? Kind of like the plugs they have on Xbox controllers so people who trip over the cords don't pull the Xbox off the shelf.

I've got a massage chair with the same type of problem - however, I've been really careful with it, because the guy at the store I bought it from said they have at least one adapter a week break because of that very same issue.

EDIT: Err, once you find a 14v replacement adapter, that is ;)
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: Black88GTA

300mA - I don't think that'll be enough amperage to do any good. OP said that his was 1A...

Nah, the factory AC adapter is 12v 650mA. Output from the fully charged battery is ~12v 1A.

vaguely considering using this zip drive 12v/1A wall wart. Slight undervolt, but it should work fine, since it's DC and a 15% difference isn't TERRIBLY off (yeah, yeah, I know, the 10% rule, blah blah)
 

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Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: Black88GTA

300mA - I don't think that'll be enough amperage to do any good. OP said that his was 1A...

Nah, the factory AC adapter is 12v 650mA. Output from the fully charged battery is ~12v 1A.

vaguely considering using this zip drive 12v/1A wall wart. Slight undervolt, but it should work fine, since it's DC and a 15% difference isn't TERRIBLY off (yeah, yeah, I know, the 10% rule, blah blah)

http://www.allelectronics.com/...Wall_Transformers.html

try this
bottom of the page has a 13.5 VDC transformer, rated to 800mA