That's a good thing, so it was likely as good as plugging in nothing, since
no circuit would ever complete. I know the manual says to let it go about
6.5 hours a charge and to not press the ptt while it's plugged in. I wonder
why I can't operate with it plugged in?

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: ac power jack on Th-f6a


> I wouldn't know, I've never done that, I took it out of the box, looked
and
> said "hmmm, top 2 look like speaker mic so must be bottom since it looks a
> little different, cover and all" and I plugged it in and went on my way.
> When I got mine I had a half charged battery so I actually ran it for
about
> 6 hours programming it by hand before I charged it. I don't think you'd
hurt
> the jack doing what you did though,  the connector for the charger is a
> barrel connector so it's looking for that center pin that's in the
charging
> jack,  way in you can't reach it in that tiny jack, but it's there to make
> the connection, in the mic jack it's only connecting with the outer shell
of
> the charger connector not completing the circuit so unless you turned it
on
> that way I'd doubt you did any damage.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brent Harding" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:34 PM
> Subject: Re: ac power jack on Th-f6a
>
>
> > Oh, I hope it's not possible to damage the ports if plugging in the
wrong
> > way, it seems to fit, but I would imagine not quite enough for it to do
> > anything.
> >
>