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I was away for the night and forgot my power adapter for my Nighthawk MR1100 mobile broadband router and so figured 5v was 5v and plugged the USB plug into my iPhone 4 power adapter USB-out and now t...
Last I knew USB was USB as far as voltage pin out so as long as the cable for the router was used plugged into the Apple power brick things should just work. As said, the router should not care about more current available, it will only use what it needs. If you were to put an inline current meter in between the router and power brick you would find that the router is not pulling 1 amp from the OEM brick.
Have used Apple power bricks on lots of non Apple devices, such as Android tablets.
There is a lot more these days to USB charging than USB is USB. What about 5 volt and 9 volt devices?
In the case of the MR1100, the manual says:
"Quick Charge 2.0–enabled devices must be paired with Quick Charge 2.0–certified adapters."
I have no idea how this ties in with Apple's technology.
The manual also says:
"Use only approved batteries in the device."
That suggests that you can indeed replace the battery.
The first message asked?
Is there a manual reset for the device? Have I just burned out the battery and that can be replaced?
There is support for the MR1100, including a manual, somewhere at the end of this link:
>>> MR1100 | Product | Support | NETGEAR <<<
The answer to those questions is probably in the section To perform a factory reset using the Reset button
Never saw a 9 volt USB device. Is there such a thing? To the best of knowledge all USB is 5 volt. Hope 9 Volt is not entering into the mix for USB.
I have a Netgear charger.
Input 100-240V
Output 5V 1.8A
Or 9V 1.1A
It is the Quick Charge thing from Qualcomm.
michaelkenward wrote:
I have a Netgear charger.
Input 100-240V
Output 5V 1.8A
Or 9V 1.1A
It is the Quick Charge thing from Qualcomm.
Had never seen that.
Well this 83 year old has learned something new today. ;) I try to keep up with tech as that has been my life since hiring in with IBM in 1961 and working on mainframes. Retired with a buy out and joined a network group supporting over 100 hospitals coast to coast. All tied to the central data center. You learn fast that doctors get very cranky if they cannot access info in the centalized database. ;) Really no downtime allowed. Retired from there in 2013.