Re: is 12V dc too much for h2200 ?

I have measured the delivered voltage at my car adapter. It gives 5V!

Gerhard

On Friday 25 May 2007 02:55:04 Marcus Brown wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> IIRC the car adapter was available is an Accessories Kit.
> I have one, but no car atm (swap?;), so I'm unable to tell
> you what the actual voltage would be (right now).
>
> However, I'd think it most likely that the adapter would
> bring the voltage down to that of a USB socket (5V?) so
> feeding 12V would not be a good plan.
>
> Also, don't forget that "car power" is not 12V, is not
> "stable", and often contains nasty voltage spikes.
> Hooking up a computerised device to that would be much
> worse than plain 12V, particularly as I very much doubt
> that _any_ iPaq would have voltage regulation good enough
> to handle what a car's electrical system can produce.
>
> Marcus.
>
> Alex Babkin wrote:
> > I plan to use the h2200 in car. I didn't have the car adapter in the
> > package (ebay)
> >
> > Can i feed in straight 12V from the car power into h2200?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Alex
>
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Received on Fri May 25 2007 - 10:43:53 EDT