If I were to take a standard AC to DC converter, say a laptop charger, and hook up the input side (which expects 120VAC at 60Hz) to a DC power supply of some sorts, will the electricity still be “converted,” or will it just not work at all? I am clearly very uneducated when it comes to electronics (albeit working on it) so I would very much an ELI5 answer Thanks!
It’s actually very hard to predict without looking at the PSU. And depending on the design, the failure will be by shorting your DC current supply, so I really don’t recommend testing it.
But many designs handle a DC supply perfectly fine.