More Power to Ya
Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 8:25 am
Chip Hindes wrote:
"70 W is almost six amps and it will kill your battery stone dead in about 10 hours...."
No problem, Mon. If de battry go down, I jist plug de battry charger in de inverter 'n charge him up agin.
Seriously, your point is well made. Even with 18 amps charge coil output and 210 AH in the house bank, frugality is good. A laptop display that draws about 5 Watts makes more sense than the 35 W or so for a monitor.
Took the laptop out in the sun. The sun's reflection at a direct angle to my eyes makes it impossible. At a different angle, but still in the sun, the displayed image is visible but not good. Holding a hand or something over it to shade the image helps but, with my pupils adjusted for the ambient brightness, the image is readable but not as good as a reflective screen would be. Sunglasses just made everything dimmer, their polarization had no effect. Don't know if any laptops have reflective screens.
No question that the marine displays and other better stuff is the right way to go - if ya got the dough. And touch screen sounds better than a mouse.
Anybody have experience with a velcro strap-on touch screen like this?
http://www.touchwindow.com/miva/merchan ... op+%26+LCD
The IBM POS touch screen LCD spillproof displays seem interesting. Should be some used ones somewhere at, maybe, affordable prices. But they are probably power hungry.
A used (read cheap), reflective, touch screen, laptop display that can be separated from the non-essential parts of its computer base or remotely powered from the real laptop in the cabin, would be nice. So would the winning lotto number.
"70 W is almost six amps and it will kill your battery stone dead in about 10 hours...."
No problem, Mon. If de battry go down, I jist plug de battry charger in de inverter 'n charge him up agin.
Seriously, your point is well made. Even with 18 amps charge coil output and 210 AH in the house bank, frugality is good. A laptop display that draws about 5 Watts makes more sense than the 35 W or so for a monitor.
Took the laptop out in the sun. The sun's reflection at a direct angle to my eyes makes it impossible. At a different angle, but still in the sun, the displayed image is visible but not good. Holding a hand or something over it to shade the image helps but, with my pupils adjusted for the ambient brightness, the image is readable but not as good as a reflective screen would be. Sunglasses just made everything dimmer, their polarization had no effect. Don't know if any laptops have reflective screens.
No question that the marine displays and other better stuff is the right way to go - if ya got the dough. And touch screen sounds better than a mouse.
Anybody have experience with a velcro strap-on touch screen like this?
http://www.touchwindow.com/miva/merchan ... op+%26+LCD
The IBM POS touch screen LCD spillproof displays seem interesting. Should be some used ones somewhere at, maybe, affordable prices. But they are probably power hungry.
A used (read cheap), reflective, touch screen, laptop display that can be separated from the non-essential parts of its computer base or remotely powered from the real laptop in the cabin, would be nice. So would the winning lotto number.