[blindkid] Orion TI 36x talking calculator question

[Richard Holloway]

Marking with tape is an excellent suggestion-- we have dozens of  
electronic items around here, each with it's  own "wall wart" or  
"brick" power supply. Very few are interchangeable so I try and mark  
all of them I can. For what it may be worth, I have actually found  
that brightly colored 3M electrical tape (from Home Depot, etc.) holds  
up a bit better and when written on with a Sharpie the label lasts for  
years. As a bonus, I know which ones have yellow or red or blue labels  
(etc.) making it even easier to narrow down the choices... It is  
amazing how well these labels hold up! A really nice feature with this  
tape is that usually you can peel off the electrical tape years later  
and leave virtually no residue-- again, this is with the better  
quality 3M tape-- probably $3 or $4 a roll and available in many  
colors. I would NOT suggest the cheap 99 cent stuff-- it will leave a  
gooey mess every time and it tends to move and slide when something  
like a power supply gets warm.

We're not quite ready to encourage Kendra (not quite age 7 at this  
point) to plug and unplug things from the wall yet, if for no other  
reason than she'd soon want to unplug everything she ran across, but  
when she's a bit older I suspect braille dymo labels would be a great  
idea especially for her items and obviously conventional (print) dymo  
labels could also be useful for print readers...

Richard



On Jun 14, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Carol Castellano wrote:

> Maybe the manufacturer can help you?  We finally started putting a  
> piece of masking tape on each charger as it entered the house and  
> marking what piece of equipment it belonged to.
> Carol
>
> At 12:14 PM 6/14/2009, you wrote:
>> David Thomas has this talking calculator, it is about two years  
>> old.  We have not used it much, as we have tried to take the abacus  
>> and "math think" as far as we could.  We now have a problem, we are  
>> not sure if we have the right charger selected for it.  If anyone  
>> else has one and could double check their charger as described  
>> below, that would be helpful to us.
>>
>> The charger that we think goes to the calculator says 6volt, 1 amp  
>> on the side.  It also says "Egston" on the top of the charger.  It  
>> doesnt say Orion or TI anywhere, but these chargers are often third  
>> party items that are not made by the primary manufacturer.   The  
>> charging end that goes into the calculator is silver with a yellow  
>> plastic tip.
>>
>> If anyone can verify that this description, particularly the  
>> voltage and amperage, is what fits theirs then we will be sure that  
>> we wont accidentally "smoke" this 279 dollar item.
>>
>> Muchas gracias, Andy Thomas
>>
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