Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!orca!javelin.sim.es.com!glacier!cpetterb From: cpetterb@glacier.sim.es.com (Cary Petterborg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: Can Laptops be powered from Car Batteries? Message-ID: Date: 15 May 91 21:13:32 GMT References: <18820001@hpspdra.spd.HP.COM> Sender: news@javelin.sim.es.com Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp. Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: tomm@hpspdra.spd.HP.COM's message of 6 May 91 16:47:49 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: mickey.sim.es.com In article <18820001@hpspdra.spd.HP.COM> tomm@hpspdra.spd.HP.COM (Tom Menten) writes: > I would like to find take a laptop on a fishing boat; it needs to > run from the 12v system on the boat, since there is no regular > access to 120v AC. > > Surely, there must be many users running their laptops from car > batteries, yes? Yet folks at the local computer warehouse type store > seem to think this is an esoteric question. Are there standard > solutions someone can tell me about? I saw in a magazine (or catalog) a converter which you could plug into a car cigarette lighter and get 110V AC out. Anyone else know about one of these things? Do they work very well (low wattage output if I remember), or do they drain the car battery too much? Does anyone know where you can get one? Cary -- _______________ Cary Petterborg (801)582-5847 x6446 Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp. Simulation Division SLC, UT 84108 UUCP: ...!uunet!sim.es.com!cpetterb *NET: cpetterb@glacier.sim.es.com _______________ "A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others." -Wizard of Oz