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- From: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: external power on 95
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.1238.3828@channel1>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 23:50:09 EST
- Reply-To: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Channel 1 Communications
- Lines: 32
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- On 01-01-93 MICHAEL J GINGELL -- PERS wrote:
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- MJGP»After reading some earlier postings and seeing my batteries run down
- MJGP»fast with a lot of RS232 transfers I decided to try a quick fix and
- MJGP»bought the Radio Shack 273-1455 adapter for $7.95. This adapter (now
- MJGP»called 273-1455C C for made in China ? :-) ) actually generates 11.5
- MJGP»volts DC which drops to 11 volts with a 20 milliamp load. I think
- MJGP»this may be too high because when I used it yeaterday for about 4s
- MJGP»hours the clock in the 95 gained several minutes. It also made the 95
- MJGP»very slightly warm.
-
- I use the Radio Shack (Archer) 273-1651B which was recommended in
- _Palmtop Papers_. It puts out 9V DC, 500 mA. Clock keeps accurate
- time, and 95 doesn't heat up. I also have made a little portable
- battery pack by putting four 9V (snaptop) batteries in parallel
- and running them into a barrel connector that fits the power port
- on the 95. With a little "experimenter's case", four
- battery-terminals, and clips to hold the batteries in place in
- the case, the cost came to about ten dollars in parts. I use it
- whenever I'm doing stationary computing, sitting down, somewhere
- I can't plug into the wall. So the only time i run on the 95's
- internal batteries is on-the-run.
-
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