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Date:         Sun, 28 May 2000 16:08:11 -0700
Reply-To:     Ty Graham <tyg@OZ.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Ty Graham <tyg@OZ.NET>
Subject:      Re: power in bus for a PC (little Vanagon)
Comments: To: t <vbob@PRIMENET.COM>
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I have had good luck with the Lind DC -> DC adaptors. My Dell just thinks it's on AC. Too avoid clutter, I have permanently installed the Lind adapter for my Dell Inspiron in my under sink cabinet. My friend has also permanently installed a Lind for his always on DVD/navigation laptop. Neither of us have ever had a problem.

Lind makes Air/Auto adapters for about every laptop out there. ~$100, if I remember.

I have a link to Lind on my Westy page. http://www.oz.net/~tyg/TyG/Westy.htm

TyG

-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf Of t Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 3:27 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: power in bus for a PC (little Vanagon)

Ah... no.

Cheap inverters make square waves, do not attenuate spikes(in the megavolt range) and are generally unhealthy for the inner components of a Computer quality AC/DC converter. Pay the bucks to buy a good one or get a regulated DC/DC converter. Persoanlly, I would buy whatever the manufacture sold as there is no question when the system stops running whos fault it is. Second choice would to build a little regulator and place it in line with the output from the cigarette plug. It may turn out that all you need is a simple 12 volt regulator depending on the input requirements of the computer.

tim o'brien BS Computer Engineering, Univ. Mass. with a specialty in Vanagon masochism.

"Karl F. Bloss" wrote: > > Buy a cheap inverter and you're done. The inverter comes in handy for other > stuff like digital camera charging and other small appliances. $60-$70 will > get you a 300W continuous /600W surge, which is way more than you need (check > the power rating on the power cube that comes with the laptop. Mine says 1.5A > @ 120V, which is less than 200W. > > -Karl > > Karl and Kristina Bloss, Trexlertown, PA > '87 Westfalia Weekender "Beverley" - 197K miles > http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw/ > PA/NJ Vanagon owner's mailing list: http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw/pavanagon/


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