toby10 wrote: > You could use the same power inverter to power the WD HDD. I also use > an inverter in my car (but not for audio) and three potential issues may > be causing your Touch to rescan often (i.e. losing power). Your > inverter may be shutting down (even momentarily) for three possible > reasons. > > 1. Many inverters will shut down when they detect an over draw of amps > on the car battery (amps dip to below xx amps) to protect the battery. > > 2. When you start the car this may (likely) cuts all power to all > accessories including the inverter. > 3. Power fluctuations in DC/AC line may also be causing momentary power > cuts to Touch and/or HDD. > > Just throwing out some ideas to check into. Might be suffering from all > three issues, dunno.
Yes! I have a converter just about this connected straight to the batterys http://www.ebay.com/itm/Waterproof-DC-DC-Converter-12V-Step-down-to-5V-3A-15W-Power-Supply-Module-/221117981188 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slowitchu's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=60836 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99282 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
