Charger compatibility question

[pae77]

I've been searching around the web but cannot find the answer to this question so I thought I'd turn to the battery andcharger experts that frequent this forum.

I have a several years old Nokia car charger (Type LCH-8) that has the following specs: Input: DC 12 V/24V; Output: 650 mA, 7.5 VDC.

I would like to use it for some new Nokia cell phones but am not sure whether it would be compatible or not and can find no information on Nokia's site regarding this particular charger, except it is not listed as being compatible.

Nokia, however, does make an adapter which allows their older 3.5 mm chargers like this one is to physically fit the newer 2 mm charger jacks, so I know it will fit. The question is whether it will hurt anything electronically if I try to use it on these newer phones like the Nokia 6300 or 6233.

The regular AC charger that came bundled with the 6300 phone has the following output specs: DC 5V/350 mA.


Thanks guys in advance for any help with this question.

 

[VidPro]

from the specs you provided no.
it looks like the old phone used a different battery type, example they used to use 4x1.2v rechargables in the old analog stuff long ago.
and nowdays most of this stuff uses a single 3.7 volt li-ion battery.

it could possibly be modified and could be crammed in and mabey not destroy everything for a while, but they would not be directally compatable, and you could hurt the internal charging junk in the phone thing.

 

[pae77]

Thank you very much. Glad I decided to ask before just trying it out!

 

[rwolff]

example they used to use 4x1.2v rechargables in the old analog stuff long ago

Actually, the old analog Nokias used 3x1.2V rechargeables (I have one of their model 252 analog phones sitting around gathering dust). Before you go using the "big plug to small plug" adapter, take a close look at the plug on the charger - Nokia's slow chargers have 2 contacts (inside and outside of the barrel plug), while their fast chargers have 3 contacts (the outside of the barrel plug has 2 rings on it separated by an insulating band), with the third contact presumably being for feedback to the charger. Don't use a 2-contact adapter with a 3-contact charger.