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How to charge an iPhone/iPod with a camera charger

How to charge an iPhone/iPod with a camera charger

In this instructable, i am using my brother's camera charger to charge my iPod touch. As long as the charger is USB, it should work. If you mess up and destroy your charger/iphone/ipod, I am not responsible.

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Step 1Materials

You will need:
iPhone/iPod
Your charging cable
a USB camera charger

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20 comments

Sep 30, 2011. 9:46 PMklaurson says:

Yea, great, but its pure beginners luck if it happens to work. Out of AC USB chargers I would say less than work this way. There is amps to start with (Apple demands more than average, iPad 2.1A). Crappy UBS AC chargers have voltages all over the place (not 5.0V, but 4 or 6 or whatever). Is there harm is trying random chargers? Probably not.

How about doing some investigation into this science (find the acceptable Volt and Amp ranges for different Apple devices)?

Finding a 12V car charger that works with all iOS devices was much more of a challenge. How to identify one that will work would be actually worthy of a Instructable.

Aug 23, 2011. 9:48 PMjoeydavies28 says:

i liked it. who cares what they say dsmp.

Aug 24, 2011. 3:06 PM

DSMP (author) says:

Thanks :D

Aug 22, 2011. 2:14 PMmakincoolstuff says:

is this a joke?

Aug 22, 2011. 3:33 PM

DSMP (author) says:

Nope.

Jul 31, 2011. 5:26 PMdvnfntn says:

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Jul 29, 2011. 1:56 AMgto3000 says:

it wont charge an iphone unless it has the dummy load on the data lines

Jul 31, 2011. 6:49 AMData643 says:

Very True.

Jul 29, 2011. 1:44 AM

siamonsez says:

really? yeah, it's got usb and it's plugged in and it's charging, it's a usb charger!
btw, is there a youtube video for this because I'm kinda confused. haha.

Jul 29, 2011. 11:45 AMokoshima says:

i see what you did there...

Jul 29, 2011. 9:07 AM

DSMP (author) says:

The charger was made for a camera, not an iPod/iPhone. That is kinda why I made it.

Jul 29, 2011. 10:39 AM

siamonsez says:

Yeah, but a usb charger is a usb charger is a usb charger. They are all more or less interchangeable save for amperage output, and I think if you looked at any other ibles involving usb you could figure out that most people around here already know that.

Jul 29, 2011. 10:46 AM

DSMP (author) says:

This is true, but some people didn't know, so i just wanted to point it out, that is all.