XPost: misc.industry.electronics.marketplace   
   From: jasen@xnet.co.nz   
      
   On 2009-01-01, Sarah Houston  wrote:   
   > I just got a Heath-Zenith doorbell that uses three D cells but want to run   
   > it off the AC line instead of eating batteries.   
   >   
   > Is there some kind of AC adapter that can do that and plug into the   
   > battery holder slots? ( it has no adapter jack )   
      
   you could try an ordinary 4.5V or 5V DC plugpack   
   but cut off the plug and run the wires to thumbtacks in the   
   ends of D-cell sized lumps of wood (or rolled paper, etc)   
      
   most times the wire with the stripe is the positive wire.   
      
   > What do they call a device like that?   
      
   a battery eliminator ?  :)   
      
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