[Bunit]

Hey All,
I used to have a 4th Generation iPod and had the wall charger that went with it. I no longer have the iPod, but a friend recently got the 2nd genteration nano. Can I give them the charge to charge up their iPod with no issues? My two worries are that it uses firewire and iPods don't use that anymore, and/or the voltage might be different and fry it. So will this work?

Thanks.

[C.A.T.S. CEO]

Originally Posted by Bunit 

Hey All,
I used to have a 4th Generation iPod and had the wall charger that went with it. I no longer have the iPod, but a friend recently got the 2nd genteration nano. Can I give them the charge to charge up their iPod with no issues? My two worries are that it uses firewire and iPods don't use that anymore, and/or the voltage might be different and fry it. So will this work?

Thanks.

There is no difference in voltage, and DC is DC, 2 of the prongs in a USB port are for power and 2 of the prongs in a FW port are for power.

[slpdLoad]

My friend charges his Nano with an old Firewire charger. It'll be fine.

[Bunit]

Awesome to hear. Thanks for the quick answers!

[analogika]

In fact, charging via Firewire can be better than charging via USB.

In cases where the battery has been *extremely* depleted, Firewire power has a much better chance of recovering the supposedly dead iPod.