[SPAM?] car adaptor

[Piers Kelly]

Hi Margaret, thanks for that.

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.




On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Margaret Sharpe <msharpe3 at une.edu.au> wrote:

> 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.
> Margaret Sharpe
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> On 04/09/2011, at 6:07 PM, Piers Kelly wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 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.
> http://www.aldi.com.au/au/html/offers/2827_18890.htm
>
> Might be useful for running laptops from a battery pack, or indeed from a
> car.
>
> Cheers,
> Piers
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