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Danger Will Robinson!
..be advised that the standard voltage on a laptop PSU is ~19Vdc, DUDEstuff here requires 12V. And, unlike the small(er) overhead we can get away with, say, 9Vdc to 12Vdc on desktop iBurst modems, 12 to 19 is just too much.I've always understood universal in this context to apply to the end connectors (as there's inevitably a whole selection of them) for the various brands with their insistence on different sized power sockets; but then I've also never looked closely enough to check if there's also a switchable output voltage so it's entirely possible I'm under-informed on the product. It's just that in my wanderings pretty much every laptop brick I've looked at has been of the order of 19Vdc, it's usually only the current ratings that change (and so govern the size of the brick overall) which is why we see wee little bricks for the really small laptops and much bigger ones for the monsters. But, as far as I've seen anyway, pretty much all at around 19Vdc.
