Originally Posted by
painintheuk
Can I use an old US 2nd generation ipod 'brick' (I think it has a firewire adapter to connect to the brick) to charge my 5th generation vidio ipod in Belgium with the appropriate adapter? I don't want to bring my laptop but will need a recharge if I want to watch video (and maybe if I don't!). I am fairly sure that it should work, but thought I would ask just in case.
Test it before you go; it won't hurt anything. As long as the dock connectors are the same, I think you're set. (I can't remember when the dock connectors were introduced. The earliest iPods did not have them if I remember correctly.) The fact that it's FireWire doesn't matter for the charging aspect. What no longer works with FireWire on the later iPods is syncing to a computer. If you have a brick and a cable that ends in a dock connector, you should be good to go. Make sure the brick is rated up to 240v AC as I noted months ago in above post, but I'm pretty sure all the Apple ones always were, and in that case you'll only need the plug adapter for western Europe.