<meta charset="utf-8">Hi Margaret, thanks for that.<div><br><div>I suspect the Aldi convertor is going to be nowhere near close enough to be efficient or reliable for use with a laptop. Having looked briefly at some earlier RNLD discussions on solar power, I notice that Tom and others suggested getting hold of a fancier pure sine wave invertor, or to get a DC to DC adaptor to circumvent the power loss that comes from converting DC to AC then back DC again at the laptop end. </div>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Margaret Sharpe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:msharpe3@une.edu.au">msharpe3@une.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">You need to check if it is moderately close to a sine wave output for computers. I have a Dick Smith 300w power inverter, which works fine from 12 v to 240 v AC. It's not exactly sine wave, they told me, but it is in little steps which approximate a sine wave. Wonderful to have in the Winnebago when travelling out of areas where you can plug in to 240 v. I think they have a lower powered one which was not highly recommended. Also useful to plug in my Bigpond wireless modem, when there's no 240v power around and there's Telstra coverage.<div>
Margaret Sharpe<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div><div>On 04/09/2011, at 6:07 PM, Piers Kelly wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi all,<div>For those on this list who are based in Australia, I've noticed that ALDI is selling adaptors that convert a car cigarette lighter socket to three pin 240V socket.<div>
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<div><br></div><div>Might be useful for running laptops from a battery pack, or indeed from a car. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Piers</div>-- <br><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;border-collapse:collapse"><font color="#100080"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman"><font color="#222222" face="'Georgia Bold'"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial, sans-serif"><font color="#100080"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman"><font face="'Georgia Bold'"><div style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
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