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New Question: Dropping mA's?

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xerocalibur

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Hey, ok -- the keyboard thing, I'm just going to get a ready-made kit off ebay and install it safely into my keyboard...

The new question is as follows: How can one safely drop the amount of mA's flowing through a current?

See, I have this cordless phone here that runs off 9v@300mA's. It's kinda old, and to be honest, I've never used it... so if it gets ruined, bah, I don't care. I have all the bits and pieces to it still, including the class 2 wall wart.

Now, here's the fun part. I have an answering machine that is kinda cheapo, but colored the same way (amazing what you find when you clean out your closet)... It *also* runs off of 9v... but at 200mA.

I want to splice into the power line going into the cordless phone base, and run a male adapter plug out from the base of the phone that has 9v@200mA, that will be able to plug into the answering machine's power plug port.

Is this *possible*?

Any and all information would be quite helpful here; especially any quick soldering notes about what-goes-where.
 
It shouldn't be a problem. The amperage rating on the power source is the maximum current that it can/will safely run. If the devicce uses less current than that there shouldn't be any issues.
 
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