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Dave Liquorice
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:39:04 +0100, MVP wrote:
> What are the chances it's be happy on 14vDC (which is the voltage
> accross my battery 99% of the time)?
It might be, you need to look at the spec of the laptop.
> If it'll be happy with 14vDC would the delivery of it in a cars
> electrical system be nice and smooth enough?
Car electrical systems are noisy and very variable.
> If it'll not be happy with 14vDC how easy is it to find a 1:1.357
> ratio transformer to step-up the voltage?
>
> And would that work?
Transformers don't work on DC...
I think your best bet would be a small invertor to generate "mains"
and use that to power the normal laptop PSU.
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> What are the chances it's be happy on 14vDC (which is the voltage
> accross my battery 99% of the time)?
It might be, you need to look at the spec of the laptop.
> If it'll be happy with 14vDC would the delivery of it in a cars
> electrical system be nice and smooth enough?
Car electrical systems are noisy and very variable.
> If it'll not be happy with 14vDC how easy is it to find a 1:1.357
> ratio transformer to step-up the voltage?
>
> And would that work?
Transformers don't work on DC...
I think your best bet would be a small invertor to generate "mains"
and use that to power the normal laptop PSU.
--
Cheers [email protected]
Dave. pam is missing e-mail
