USB Woodstock charger?

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(05-30-2023 02:32 PM)smp Wrote:  Any thoughts or comments welcome!

You probably already know the 100+ threads on this forum warning against charging the batteries inside any Woodstock series calculator.

What puzzles me a little are those two statemets in the description of the charging cable:

"Fully Regulated Voltage - just like the HP original charger"
"Fully Regulated Charging Current - just like the HP original charger"

As we all know, both statements are wrong. The HP original charger does not regulate anything and therefore kills calculators. If the seller starts his description with two wrong statements, I would rather be cautious about anything else he claims!

Personally I would not use this charger. I am so used to charge the batteries outside the calculator that I will not change my habit again :-) If you replace the original 500mAh NiCd cells with more modern 2500mAh NiMH cells, your calculator will last five times as long as originally.

Regards
Max