[Leica] help me electrocute myself and destroy my new camera!

[vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko)]

That's what I'd do.

I'm cheap.

I'm willing to try anything (watch me restore rare Nikon 50mm f1.1 lenses!)

And if you can smoke a house with 8.7v at 1.4amps, we should be talking to
make this commercially more attractive.

...Vick 

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+vick.ko=sympatico.ca@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+vick.ko=sympatico.ca@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Kyle
Cassidy
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 12:41 PM
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] help me electrocute myself and destroy my new camera!


I know that 8% of you are electrical engineers and 14% of you would like to
see my camera catch fire -- so let me pose what I'm sure will be a question
of general interest.

I recently acquired the Leica D1h you've all heard so much about in the
media -- but it came with no battery charger. Chargers on ebay and Amazon,
sell for $75 or $150 -- which is absurd. My question is this:

Can I go to radio shack and buy a battery charger whose output is equal to
or less than 8.7v 1.4a (the specs of the dedicated Leica charger) and just
alligator clip the positive terminal on hte charger to the positive terminal
on the battery, do the same with the negative, and eschew the $80
proprietary connector?

Thanks!

Kyle (next to the smoking house)