> From: "Andrew W. Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I'm having a look around for car chargers/adapters for a current model > > I got a very expensive one from the place in Carillion Arcade. It > was $200, but it was made by Lind. I've used Lind on my laptops in > the past and found that they have excellent power conditioning. I > really don't trust a lot of the generic ones as I've blown power > boards in the past from bad power, and car power supplies are > notoriously dirty. If you get a genero-one, make sure to plug it in > after the car has started to avoid the surge.
Years ago I purchased a single-purpose Lind PowerBook adapter which ran a few of my earlier PowerBooks, but being designed to plug straight into the PowerBook bypassing the PowerBook's power adapter, it proved to be very inflexible when Apple brought out later model Powerbooks which had different power requirements (and plug sizes!). Later on I used a friend's cheap $99 150w square-wave inverter that I ran a few of my older Powerbooks in the car quite effectively from without any obvious adverse effects to the Powerbooks (phew!). The inverter had the advantage as others have mentioned of being able to power other 240v devices as well which proved quite handy on long off-road camping trips. However, after we looked into purchasing an inverter of our own a couple of years ago, it was pointed out to me that modern laptops have much slimmer and lighter "switching" (is that the correct term Kat or others?) power-packs than the old Powerbooks which are more susceptible to the problems inherent in square-wave AC current. As a result, it was recommended we buy a more expensive sine-wave inverter ($300 for a 150w unit at the time from the 12v Shop) that has run modern iBooks and Powerbooks, GPS, digital camera battery chargers, lights, iPod charger, etc (even an electric frying pan ouch!) etc at different times quite effectively. -Mart -------------------------------------- Martin Hill mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] homepages: http://mart.ozmac.com Mb: 0417-967-969 hm: (08)9314-5242
