Re: Is a power inverter safe for laptops and iPods?

2010-07-14 Thread Clark Martin
On 7/14/10 10:51 AM, Tom wrote: During an upcoming vacation in an RV, our family will want to charge their Apple laptops and iPods as usual, but of course there won't be any wall outlets like there are in a house. Instead, we have a little gadget called a power inverter from Radio Shack, made in

Re: Is a power inverter safe for laptops and iPods?

2010-07-14 Thread Clark Martin
On 7/14/10 11:41 AM, Doug McNutt wrote: At 14:08 -0400 7/14/10, Dan wrote: Best to try things in advance... Yep. And it would be pretty hard to find a power converter that would damage any of today's computer power converters. If it doesn't work don't leave it hooked up too long and pay atten

Re: Is a power inverter safe for laptops and iPods?

2010-07-14 Thread Jonas Lopez
the wave form fails, it is dc and no inductive reactance will cause it to have VERY HIGH CURRENTS burning out your supply. JML From: Dan Subject: Re: Is a power inverter safe for laptops and iPods? To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 11:08 AM At 10:51 AM -0700 7/14

Re: Is a power inverter safe for laptops and iPods?

2010-07-14 Thread Doug McNutt
At 14:08 -0400 7/14/10, Dan wrote: >Best to try things in advance... Yep. And it would be pretty hard to find a power converter that would damage any of today's computer power converters. If it doesn't work don't leave it hooked up too long and pay attention to hot spots that shouldn't be. Che

Re: Is a power inverter safe for laptops and iPods?

2010-07-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 14, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Dan wrote: > At 10:51 AM -0700 7/14/2010, Tom wrote: >> During an upcoming vacation in an RV, our family will want to charge their >> Apple laptops and iPods as usual, [...] power inverter from Radio Shack >> [...] Anybody see a problem with plugging a Powerbook, a

Re: Is a power inverter safe for laptops and iPods?

2010-07-14 Thread Dan
At 10:51 AM -0700 7/14/2010, Tom wrote: During an upcoming vacation in an RV, our family will want to charge their Apple laptops and iPods as usual, [...] power inverter from Radio Shack [...] Anybody see a problem with plugging a Powerbook, a MacBook, or an iPod into this thing? (Not all at on

Is a power inverter safe for laptops and iPods?

2010-07-14 Thread Tom
During an upcoming vacation in an RV, our family will want to charge their Apple laptops and iPods as usual, but of course there won't be any wall outlets like there are in a house. Instead, we have a little gadget called a power inverter from Radio Shack, made in Taiwan by Enercell, that can be pl