Re: is 12V dc too much for h2200 ?

You will blow up the h2200 if you apply 12V, and you may possibly create a
dangerous situation within the charging circuitry. The iPAQ can mostly deal
with between 4.5V and 5.5V; any more or less will cause it not to function
properly.

joshua

On Fri, 25 May 2007, Gerhard Zintel wrote:

> 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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