Recent content by PeteJG

Funny you should say that, a redundant 5V plugtop PSU from a Netgear ethernet switch has just come out of retirement and is working quite well :-)

Thanks. As an electronics engineer anyway I did notice the battery compartment is particularly poorly designed but there are no dry joints and I don't put rechargeables in things like this as they rarely provide enough terminal voltage, so sadly it looks like it's just one-of-those-things. It...

Is it normal for Climapro2's to eat batteries? I'm lucky if they last a month!

Does it rip easily? Felt supplied with sheds is often cheap rubbish so if it does then whatever you're going to do, chuck it and get some decent stuff!