Another problem solved

We got a digital camera for Christmas. It had a battery charging cradle with it, but we never noticed that it wasn't actually charging the batteries. It wasn't until very recently that we noticed that the batteries were almost dead.

After a cursory glance at the cradle, no problem was obvious. I tried fiddling with the camera, but to no avail. The instruction manual for the cradle wasn't terribly useful, until I noticed something in one of the pictures.

The cradle has three ports in the back, one for a USB cable, one for a video capture cable, and one for the power adapter. I don't know who decided to make the video and power ports the exact same size, but they did.

For almost four months we've been trying to charge the camera with the power running through the video port.

Owned.