[ltp] car and airplance adapter

morpheus linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 07 Nov 2004 11:04:34 -0500


My Targus one died on me after less than a year.  Now I use one by
Kensington, the Universal Car/Air Power Adapter model 33051.  It's half
the size/weight of the Targus and comes with every power connector you'd
need.  It uses replaceable mini auto fuses to protect it from surges.

-James

On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 01:19, Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:48:11AM -0500, Eben King wrote:
> > I have an AC/DC adapter for my T40 (16 VDC, 4.55A).  Is it different?
> 
> I bought a Targus car/air power adapter. It comes with a whole bunch
> of laptop connectors and works fine with T20 and my friend's Dell, at
> least. :)
> 
> 
> > (Check your AC adapter.)  BTW, anybody know how they raise the
> > voltage for DC?
> 
> Probably using a charge pump.
> http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~kphang/ece1371/chargepumps.pdf
> 
> 
> //Peter