Re: is 12V dc too much for h2200 ?

Thanks a lot guys

Alex

On 5/25/07, Joshua Wise <joshua_at_joshuawise.com> wrote:
>
> 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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