NewtonTalk.net October 2008 archive: Re: [NTLK] Car Charger for

From: Ed Kummel <tech_ed_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sun Oct 19 2008 - 05:34:43 EDT

Amazon has the B&D battery powered inverter for under $20:
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Decker-Li-Ion-Inverter-VPX3101/dp/B000UMJJAU
I picked up a pair of these at Woot:
http://www.blackanddecker.com/ProductGuide/Product-Details.aspx?ProductID=17060
for $10. I have a cigarette lighter inverter in my car, one of the B&D inverters in my garage and another in my computer bag (it has a USB port so it works great for charging phones)
Honestly, I wouldn't trust a cigarette lighter adapter for the Newt...the Newt has some strange power requirements that most off-shore knock-off makers just don't understand...and with the supply of Newts going DOWN instead of up, every lost Newt is one more step towards Newt Entropy!
Ed
web/gadget guru
http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
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Never mind that we just had an incredibly cold winter in North America and huge record snowfalls across the continent. As Al Gore said to a bunch of us the other day, these record cold spells and record snowfalls are actually caused by global warming. To which Jerry York replied, 'Jeez then I guess we better stop this global warming before we all f**king freeze to death, eh?'

- 'Fake' Steve Jobs 3/24/08 blog entry

--- On Fri, 10/17/08, Matt Howe <matthowe@comcast.net> wrote:

From: Matt Howe <matthowe@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Car Charger for $70?
To: newtontalk@newtontalk.net
Date: Friday, October 17, 2008, 11:16 PM

For that price get a 12v to 110v inverter and use your regular Newton power
supply. Or a laptop, or cell phone charger or a portable dvd player or
recharge your battery drill . . . You get the idea. I've seen inverters for
less than $20US and nice ones for around $35US.

Matt (Ducky) Howe
Owner of a MP2000U and an Emate
mhowe@gfn.org (Newton)
matthowe@comcast.net (Desktop)
http://home.comcast.net/~mhowe41/

-----Original Message-----
From: newtontalk-bounce@newtontalk.net
[mailto:newtontalk-bounce@newtontalk.net]On Behalf Of SteveCraft
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 10:13 PM
To: newtontalk@newtontalk.net
Subject: [NTLK] Car Charger for $70?

I did a quick web search for a car-charger option for my 2000 and 2100. I
found something that claimed to work, but it'd be $70. Can that be correct?

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