![]() If you want to listen to records with the player plugged in the wall when the battery is dead, you’ll need this feature. The power-while-charging feature is important, because we’re going to wire the battery into the record player in such a way that it will always be receiving power from the battery’s output jack. Sometimes they include a USB cord which saves you the trouble of having to buy the one we’ll be cutting-up later. What’s important when selecting a battery is choosing one which has a separate jack for input and output, and one that can power a device while charging. I picked this up for about 15 USD over a year ago, I’m sure you can do better today. The battery I chose was selected because it was the cheapest one I had on-hand. ![]() These battery packs have also become very inexpensive in the last year or so which keeps the cost of this modification down. ![]() The 5 volt supply is key, because that happens to be the same voltage as USB which means we can use an inexpensive USB battery pack to do most of the hard work of adding rechargeable power to the player. You can certainly do this with a player that has different voltage requirements, but you’ll need to select a battery and charging circuit yourself, and if you can do that, you probably don’t need these instructions :) If it needs anything other than 5 volts DC, the rest of these instructions won’t do you much good. If your player needs 5 volts DC, read on. If not, you’ll need a voltmeter to measure the voltage directly. This might be printed next to the power jack on the player or on the brick of the power cord. The first step is to identify what the power supply requirements are. as these are likely to use more power and reduce battery life. If you’re buying a player with the express interest of running it off battery power, you probably want to avoid extra features like USB, Bluetooth, etc. ![]() The price seems to range between $50.00 - $100.00 with some slight variation in features. This record player is sold under the brand “Innovative Technology”, but I’ve seen very similar players sold under other brands. ![]()
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