Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!apple!netcom!amdcad!brahms!phil From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Car Battery Rechargers Message-ID: <1990Oct5.202859.18464@amd.com> Date: 5 Oct 90 20:28:59 GMT References: <1990Oct4.222556.20668@athena.mit.edu> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 11 In article <1990Oct4.222556.20668@athena.mit.edu> erspert@athena.mit.edu (Ellen R. Spertus) writes: |If your battery is dead, you plug this into your cigarette lighter, and |it recharges the battery (enough to start) from a D battery. It seems |like a neat idea. I have a few questions: Yow! Better yet, why not *replace* your car battery with a D cell. It'd be a lot cheaper, weigh less, etc. :-) -- Disposable diapers reduce diaper rash.