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Clearly I have no idea how this stuff works.
I started tidying up all my cast off pumps and lights and who knows what else and found myself with a bucket of devices and a bucket of power adapters. Any tricks to knowing which go with which when you aren't lucky enough to have matching brand names on each?
I thought it might be as simple as just matching numbers on each device (volts, watts, amps) but looks like it's not so straight forward. The pump for my Tunze skimmer is DC but the adapter that I'm sure goes with it says AC (probably something to do with the controller that sits between the two but really no idea).
Then I have a pump which I believe to be DC but has no markings on it whatsoever. Its adapter is missing for sure and I have no idea how to find a match for it.
Needless to say once I straighten all this out I won't let this spaghetti mess happen again!
I started tidying up all my cast off pumps and lights and who knows what else and found myself with a bucket of devices and a bucket of power adapters. Any tricks to knowing which go with which when you aren't lucky enough to have matching brand names on each?
I thought it might be as simple as just matching numbers on each device (volts, watts, amps) but looks like it's not so straight forward. The pump for my Tunze skimmer is DC but the adapter that I'm sure goes with it says AC (probably something to do with the controller that sits between the two but really no idea).
Then I have a pump which I believe to be DC but has no markings on it whatsoever. Its adapter is missing for sure and I have no idea how to find a match for it.
Needless to say once I straighten all this out I won't let this spaghetti mess happen again!