[P1] Revive "new" dead battery (?)

[Barry Lyden]

I've been using my ipod in the car exclusively for 1/2 year now and 
love it. But I have to admit, bringing your ibook along for the ride - 
now THAT'S creativity! Nice work Charles.



On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 08:26  AM, Charles Pearce wrote:

> On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 07:03  AM, Gary D. Adams wrote:
>
>> VST's website--smartdisk.com 
>> (http://store.yahoo.com/smartdiskstore/ibookcharger.html)  $29.95
>>
>> An amazing deal, considering they include an iBook AC Adapter!
>>
>> Gary
>
> Recently I made an automobile trip (alone) during which I covered some 
> 2200 miles in about six days. I looked into buying an automobile 
> adapter for my iBook, but couldn't convince myself to shell out almost 
> $80. While looking at Wal-Mart for an automobile CD-player adapter 
> (the kind that you plug into your automobile cassette player) my eyes 
> fell on an AC/DC power inverter for $34.95. This thing takes the 
> automobile's 12-volt DC and converts (inverts?) it to 110 volts AC. It 
> is only slightly larger than the "wall-warts" one gets these days with 
> almost everything, so it doesn't take up much room in the car. I 
> plugged my iBook into it, plugged the CD adapter into the iBook, 
> started iTunes and put together a playlist of about 12 hours of music 
> (all ripped from my own CDs, thank you) and hit the "play" button--a 
> continuous stream of uninterrupted music of my choice was then my 
> constant companion through several states. I was concerned that the 
> inverter would place heavy demands on the car's alternator, but if it 
> did, it didn't show on the gauge. I also ran the car's A/C the whole 
> way and no problems ever surfaced. The nice thing about this is that 
> it charged the iBook battery at the same time. At one point I plugged 
> in the cell phone and charged it's battery too. The inverter is rated 
> at 150 watts (actually can go to 300 if you put a bigger fuse in the 
> circuit where it's plugged in) so even an iBook and a cell phone don't 
> add up to that much strain.
>
> Charles Pearce (charlesp at ksu.edu)
>
>
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