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General Discussion / Charge Battery In Car?
« on: November 26, 2004, 07:25:55 pm »
omega, I don't claim to know the physics of this, I am just re-quoting old threads.
see this thread 10 posts down from TRIsoft :-
https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...&hl=car+charger
TRI-soft are well known and well trusted in the zaurus community so I have no reason to doubt them on this.
I am also fairly sure I have seen posts from people who have bricked their zaurus this way, but can't find them at the moment.
I use an old nokia car charger that I cut the plug off and soldered a zaurus type connector on instead.
It works great, but I never leave it plugged in when starting the car after reading that post.
Maybe it's untrue, or just a marketing ploy, but I personally wouldn't want to risk it and wouldn't want anyone destroying their pride and joy either.
Either way, make sure the polarity is correct as other people in this thread have said. See these posts about bricked zauri with car chargers that have the wrong polarity :-
bricked z1
bricked Z 2
Peter
see this thread 10 posts down from TRIsoft :-
https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...&hl=car+charger
TRI-soft are well known and well trusted in the zaurus community so I have no reason to doubt them on this.
I am also fairly sure I have seen posts from people who have bricked their zaurus this way, but can't find them at the moment.
I use an old nokia car charger that I cut the plug off and soldered a zaurus type connector on instead.
It works great, but I never leave it plugged in when starting the car after reading that post.
Maybe it's untrue, or just a marketing ploy, but I personally wouldn't want to risk it and wouldn't want anyone destroying their pride and joy either.
Either way, make sure the polarity is correct as other people in this thread have said. See these posts about bricked zauri with car chargers that have the wrong polarity :-
bricked z1
bricked Z 2
Peter