Recently I joined a mailgroup at work called “Stuff” designed for off-topic dicussions and want-ads. Today I got a couple of great deals.<\/p>\n
First, a 2.1 speaker set<\/a> for $10. The seller said they didn't work the last time he tried them. They didn't work for me at first. So I checked them independently and found the tweeters worked. So that was something. But the subwoofer didn't. I unscrewed it and poked around. Nothing really to see – the speaker itself seemed fine, while the input\/amp section was sealed. Then I noticed that the input said “12V” and the power supply said “Output: 30V”. So when I got home, I dug around in the basement and found a 12V supply with a plug that fitted. Everything worked just fine. Result!<\/p>\n Second, the same person was selling a HP Scanjet 6200C<\/a>, sans drivers and leads. After a quick check<\/a>, I said I'd have it for $10. The scanner part of my printerily-challenged all-in-one technically still works, but is too bulky to keep on my desk, so the 6200C will make a good replacement scanner for general use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently I joined a mailgroup at work called “Stuff” designed for off-topic dicussions and want-ads. Today I got a couple of great deals. First, a 2.1 speaker set for $10. The seller said they didn't work the last time he tried them. They didn't work for me at first. So…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}