Cords..

No idea what you're talking about :)



Cheers
Greg

Absolutely no idea what you are on about Rob.

We label them either with a white inked marker pen or cable ties on the leads. Then tie them up with rubber bands etc.

Racinrob, we found the best way to keep them under control is to bag 'em. We use snap lock bags, get the ones you can write on, label them and place them all in a container with a tight lid so they can't escape!

Mongrel bloody things !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why they can't adopt a standard across the board e.g. mini USB escapes me. Apart from the fact they can obviously only see $ signs.

Yep, hear what you're saying guys. We have little white sticky thingeesse that the wife rounded up from somewhere, with their name, rank and serial number recorded on.

What gets me is that the one for the Hema looks very very similar to the one for the wireless modem which looks very very similar to the one for the Ipad.
But not quite similar enough...Grrrrrrrrrr.

Oh yeah, the charging cord for the I phone and the other bloody phone are different.
The adaptors to go into the 240v and the related cord occasionaly have the Ipad bringing up a message about how the charging "may" not be compatible. Note the word "may", because then it will go on to charge.

Mustn't forget the laptop I'm typing on at the moment. That's different again.

Ya reckon Bill Gates has a few bob to spare. The bloke that comes up with a way to charge all this crap with just one adaptor will out do good ol' Billy. That is unless the cord makers get to him first...

(:=E)

Cheers
Pop

only step forward was the standardising of smart phone chargers

- (except apple of course as said its about the $$)

Cop this lot!



Actually, I deceive. They are no longer in use, just in my workshop junk box. lol

I'm glad that I'm not the only one with a box full of leads!

Spent all of $5.99 at Woolworths one day and bought myself an USB octopos with 8 different plugs on the end; it's always plugged into the PC at work.

Goes missing at regular intervals to charge the office's tablets, ebooks and phones

They are great for wiring up LED night lights.

As soon as we get anything now that comes with a cord or charger I engrave on them what they are for. Saves a lot of time trying to work out what goes with what.

It's not so much the leads - we have several items that charge with a mini USB - but the plug packs that proliferate in my place.

We have a USB output plugpack, and a set of USB to "whatever" cables. Means that we can charge any item from the same plug-pack with just a change of cable. Carry a couple of such plug-packs and leave the "official" plug-packs at home in a big plastic box!

We added to the problem recently when travelling overseas. Needed adapters for UK and Europe. Ended up taking an Oz power board and only one adapter that I plugged it into and then pluged that into the foreign power point. Meant we could charge 4 items at once