Talk:Battery eliminator

Power supply
no mention yet of the core fact that a battery elmiinator is a power supply. Tabby (talk) 03:20, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

article needs clarifying/simplifying 82.31.207.100 (talk) 20:13, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Reading this article was completely confusing. After googling around, it's readily apparent that a "battery eliminator" was just a nickname for a power supply using a large capacitor that was used to replace batteries from a device. i.e. Any device that uses batteries and could not be plugged into a wall AC socket (like an old radio), could just use a standard power supply and a capacitor with adapters (that plugged in where the batteries did), so it could just run off the house power 24/7. It was especially useful for radios in cars (as back in the day, they didn't have a battery eliminator come standard, so the radio was not powered by the engine being used). I'm not comfortable enough to write that up properly in the article, but that's the gist of it. Perhaps someone can whip up a nice pic (as it's easier to explain visually). TrackZero (talk) 22:38, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Very Confusing
The "Principle of Working" doesn't explain how it works at all. Landroo (talk) 05:29, 4 April 2011 (UTC)