Will charging my iPod with a 9 Volt battery damage it?

I made one of those Altoids Mint Tin chargers. It runs on a 9V battery.If I charge my iPod with it, will it damage my iPod? If it can damage it, what would it do?

The voltage required to charge an iPod is the standard USB voltage of 5 volts. Since the device you have built is effectively homemade, and we have no way of knowing which circuit design you have used, you need to decide whether you have built it to provide 5 volts out, even though it has 9 volts going in. If it sends 9 volts into the iPod, that may damage the iPod. The polarity of the supply needs to be correct as well - in other words, the positive and negative need to be the correct way round, otherwise you may damage the iPod.
The second thing that your charger needs to be able to do is deliver the voltage at the correct rate (I believe it's 500mA. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong). In this case, if it doesn't deliver enough mA, then once again, it may not (or more likely, will not) charge the iPod.
Luc@s wrote:
If it can damage it, what would it do?
Make your iPod unusable.
Oh! and by the way, if you did damage an iPod as a result of stuffing 9 volts into it, that would void any remaining warranty on it.

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