Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 14:32:34 +1000
From: Dan Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: in car power supply
I understand where you are coming from pres, but the libretto 50 has
plenty of filtration of its own... the charger is built in to the unit
and if you check the schematics can happily take 16.6 volts, yes your
car can produce a surge greater than this voltage but it is very, very,
rare....
There are 20+ people I know who regularly use there 50 ct's in car
via a cig socket, sure fuse it for a bit of extra safety but it is quite
fine...
Yes, spend $50.00 and get an inverter (a lot of which aren't much
safer than your car anyway), if you are uncomfortable with the direct
plug-in.
All I was relaying was that I know plenty of people who do it and I
am one of them... No probs my end for two plus years now...
Best Regards,
Dan Baker.
Pres Waterman wrote:
> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 19:27:45 -0400
> From: "Pres Waterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: in car power supply
>
> I really feel I must pipe in here, because there's a fresh set of faces
> trying to do the "obvious" and plug their Libretto in directly to a car.
>
> DON'T DO IT.
>
> I don't care if so-n-so has done it for 22 years. I know electronics, I know
> cars, and I know a dumb idea when I see it.
>
> Do you <whomever> really think the $100 adapters that take a cigarette
> lighter plug into a Libretto/other laptop have nothing but air inside? NO.
> They're inverters, regulators, filters. They do a job. Hooking a $1000+
> computer to raw dirty power to save a few bucks is just insane.
>
> Take an oscilloscope and look at the power in a car. Nice and clean. Now
> crank the engine. Spikes-noise-crud.
>
> Do what you want, but do not disseminate really bad advice just because you
> don't know better and have gotten away with it so far.
>
> Thanks
>
> Pres Waterman W2PW
> c/o Patchogue Motors, Inc.
> Long Island Ford and Kia dealer
>
> GO BILLS!
>
>
>
>
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