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Airplane Adaptor

post #1 of 5
10/21/03 at 4:08am
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Whats this mysterious and elusive Airplane Adaptor I keep hearing people talk about yet I never see it anywhere, how does it work?


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post #2 of 5
10/21/03 at 4:41am
I seem to be living on planes lately.....my understanding is that to power up you need to be in business class or first class......and sorry, can't help you there! Cattle class I don't believe supply the socket....
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post #3 of 5
10/21/03 at 5:06am

Am I wrong?

Just passing my morning reading posts and I found this - "There are no car/airplane adapters for the 5680 or 8890 because they draw more power than those adapters generally can provide. With the 4780 having the same type of desktop proc, the adapters won't work for it either. The good news is that a better adapter might come out for these machines by the time the 4780 comes out. Airplane power sockets are generally found under the seat and are like car jacks (aka ciarette lighters) but are differently shaped so you need a different adapter." Credit PHUBAR for that one.
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post #4 of 5
10/21/03 at 6:33am
But as yet, there's no adaptor for either Airplanes or Cars, none for DC period. This is a sad state of affairs. Hopefully someone is working on it and can come up with a solution soon. That would be the first step towards getting a worthwhile external battery pack. Something with maybe two hours of power for high-intensity use on the 8890. Apparently, the big issue is the adaptor plug. I found some batteries that are near market, a pair of them (10.8 vdc, 6 amp output via Smart-Bus, with 98 watt hours total capacity) wired in series would give us about that two hours of power. I've emailed with the company and they are interested in figure something out.
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post #5 of 5
10/21/03 at 7:42pm
Their are some problems with the power from airplanes. The power is 110 volt ac or 28 volt dc and both are running 100hz and not 50 hz as normal power system do.
This is the problem, because you would have to convert the power to 50 and that is according to my scource a little bit expensive.
The power that are among the seats, is most of the time 110, but in some airplanes 28 volt. If the power jack is their.

Hope some one can use the info.
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