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Best solution I've found was to use a regular domestic charger and one of these.
Ring Powersource Inverter 75W from Halfords Price £24.99 Absolutely brilliant. I've yet to try it on a laptop though. EDIT: Just looked at the links in Tim's post. Tim's recommendation is better than mine if you're only planning on running a laptop. It's obviously more powerful than mine but only runs DC. I've only used mine on mobile phones, PDA's and GPS receivers and it does a cracking job for what I need. |
On the recent sojourn to Russia I used a monkey.
Really - they're very good. They come with all sorts of adaptors for lots of different things (including USBs) and you only have to charge that up rather than have lots of chargers - it's also quite small and takes up no room. https://powertraveller.com/ The monkey wasn't powerful enough to deal with a laptop (even my eeePC) though - but since my trip they've announced a gorilla which is powerful enough. https://powertraveller.com/iwantsome.../powergorilla/ and have a couple more things coming out which will solve your problems powerwise on the road. Really nice guys from Hampshire in the UK - worth giving a try. m |
look look!
They're even making a baby gorilla that charges iccle laptops like the eeePC baby/mini gorilla - 8.4v, 9.5v & 12v charger for mini laptops & Tablet PCs https://powertraveller.com/iwanta/000095/ |
Too much power consumption for a laptop?
We took a laptop on our trip through Africa and used it for everything from route planning (using Maps4Africa) to updating our website. I wired a hard saddlebag with power using a relay so that it was only on when the ignition was on. The theory was that I would charge the laptop during the day while riding so that I could use it at night. Unfortunately I only had a 60 W inverter and the laptop takes 75 W so I blew the fuse on that quite quickly. :rolleyes2: Then I had second thoughts about running 75 W all day and what that would do for the charging system when riding slowly. So the laptop was charged at campgrounds and hotels. Our laptop lasts about 6 hours on a charge so we didn't need to charge it every single night. All the other electronics (e.g. cell phone, pocketpc, camera) don't take much power and were charged using a different plug on the bike overnight.
Hope that helps! |
Seperate the battery?
Hey all
Ive got a dell Latitude e4300 which I want to take on the road with me (I want to be editing videos wile on the trip), I can see a problem with keeping the thing charged as the power supply is a 90W unit! BUT that is designed for running the laptop + charging the battery, I only want to charge it - the battery is only 11.1V. Has anyone seen a separate battery charging unit for laptop batterys? (yes I have been searching google before you ask) - if I can isolate the battery, then in theroy at 11.1 the bikes power system should be able to cope with that - either that or I need to find a smaller laptop that can deal with editing and posting vids - any suggestions? Dom |
I used a cheap 12/230 volt converter wich worked great :-)
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You just need a car charger which transforms 12V to the voltage of your Laptop.
For example this one: http://www.amazon.de/gp/aw/d/B002HG5T4M Regards Stefan Gesendet von meinem GT-I9300 mit Tapatalk 2 |
When using an inverter just be aware and learn about your particular bikes charging system
I killed a rectifier/regulator on my Vstrom because I was using the inverter to run the laptop at campsites. The Vstrom uses a shunt regulator and the amount of heat generated burnt it out, if the bike is running and moving it is probably ok to charge it Cheers TS |
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Best is if you charge the batteries while you ride along. |
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There is an after market R/R which is supposed to run a lot cooler due to a better heatsink, I would be doing some testing on that before I was confident enough to use it. Cheers TS |
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