Wall-Wart Tip

Posted 08:00 PST Mon Nov 26, 2007 in Computing

One of the things that seem to propagate around here is the number of wall-warts we amass. Just about every piece of computer equipment comes with a wall-wart to modify the juice from the wall into something the peripheral can digest.

I’ll bet there are six or seven wall-warts plugged into the power strip under my work table. It’s easy to keep track of which wart belongs to which device, so long as they’re plugged in. But, what happens when it’s necessary to move the device or store it?

Wall-wart and device become separate, like twins separated at birth. And then, they don’t do well.

What I do is put a piece of wide masking tape on the wall-wart and label it with the device type. For example, one of my warts has a piece of wide masking tape with the words “USB hub” written in black sharpie.

This works. Now I need to find the masking tape so I can label a few more warts… They seem to be taking over the place!