Wrong PSU - Please help?

What country? What is your local voltage?

In all probability (99.99% or so) your router doesn't actually require 12V. It's likely that the manufacturer specified 12V because it was convenient to obtain power bricks of that voltage.

I can't see any way you can harm it by using the 10V brick to be honest. It's likely to run cooler in fact which is no bad thing.

Graham

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Thanks for the advice Graham

Actually, I had noticed it ran cool - both the PSU and router - it is working i just want to make sure this is okay.

UK = 240V :)

It's probably close enough and will work in that case.

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As said earlie it will probably be fine, there is likely to be a voltage regulator inside the router which will convert the 12V or 10V DC to what it actually needs, most logic runs on 5V or less. Re the 1A on the router that will ba the maximum it will require so having a 1.2A supply which actually means that is the maximum it will supply, will have no effect. The reason it will run cooler is because it is having to lose less volts at the required current hence it dissipates less power. The only wat it may fall over is if parts of the circuit need a higher voltage than 5V, such as say 9V, if this is the case the voltage regulator may drop more than the needed 1V in which case it wont work. So if it is working then the only effect will be that it takes less power and therefore runs cooler.

Hope this helps you out.

pete d

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If it's working reliably, but cooler, it may well be a deliberate improvement by the manufacturer. I've seen many similar devices that've had reliablility problems from running too hot.