Well I ended up using an old mobile phone AC DC adaptor and guess what? It works! :) I was a bit surprised because the specs of the adaptor were only- input AC 100-240V 50-60Hz 150mA output DC 5.7V 800mA It still worked perfectly (just finished my first charge of the mx-1000 battery and have had no problems with it. Thanks to windoze killa for the help , much appreciated. ps The mx-1000 rules