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Lv 5

What happens if I use the wrong power supply?

I have an old casio casitone CT-310

Rating: DC 9V 8.5W

Battery 1.5V x 6

or AC adaptor AD-5

I'm looking around the house for a power supply to use.

I found the following:

Output: 9V DC 200mA

from a hand held mini vacuum cleaner charging base.

so the keyboard must demand about 945mA (8.5W / 9V) but the supply delivers only 200mA correct? What will happen if I try to use it? will it be very quiet? or do nothing? or get damaged?

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Correct.

    What will happen if you try to use it will depend on both the exact internals of the power supply and the keyboard.

    First of all, a charger base power supply with a nominal output of 9 Volts/200 mA may be delivering anything - and I wouldn't be surprised if it put out >12V at no load.

    If the keyboard could handle this (50/50 chance), there's still the question of how much the keyboard will actually draw. If it has built in speakers, it's likely that it will draw the 8.5 W only at maximum volume, so it might just work as long as you keep the volume turned down. However, if the draw of the keyboard exceeds the capabilities of the supply, you will likely get very distorted sound and possibly have the keyboard behave irregularly.

    Summary: if you don't want to risk the keyboard, get the proper power supply. Otherwise, just try it.

  • 5 years ago

    You would also want to make sure the polarity is correct.

    The keyboard wouldn't be harmed,

    but the power supply would be overloaded and could burn out.

    There wouldn't be any smoke or other visible evidence;

    it would just stop working.

    Get a supply rated for at least 1 A (1000 mA).

  • lare
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    it won't work. even if the charger had sufficient power to deliver, a battery charger has no ripple filtering, so the casitone will just sound a loud buzz. But what is more likely to happen is for the charger to fail, either quietly or catastrophically. one mode of failure from over-current is for the rectifier diode to short. if that happens, then the adapter will send straight AC current to the Casio which could cause it to fail in turn.

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