Remote power for a laptop?

[ravnostic]

I bought this. It’s only $25 plus shipping, I wonder if it will work? Anyone tried anything like it?

I won’t get it for a couple weeks (by which time the monsoons will be kicking in and I’ll probably not be doing astrophotography for the remainder of the season). If I can power my laptop for longer in a remote environment, I can use it with the EOS software to automatically take long-exposure pictures while I do virtually nothing.

http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Portable-Charger-AcerNote-LifeNote/dp/B007CEBU4M/ref=sr_1_25?ie=UTF8&qid=1339779271&sr=8-25&keywords=acer+aspire+5610+charger

[caradoc]

Can’t speak to that one, but I’ve got a 12V 15AH battery and a 300W pure sine inverter in a bag I use to power my ringflash (among other things) on location.

With a car adapter, it’d probably run a laptop or other DC devices a lot longer than it’d run the inverter under full load.

[staplermofo]

That looks like it’s intended to glide through mucocutaneous zones.

I prefer something with lead, acid, cadmium and the like. You know, manly stuff that will poison the lands to the third and fourth generation for the transgressions of the user. You can probably swipe some good old UPSs from the local state-run college. Or anywhere that has them if you get a pallet jack and one of those industrial handheld computers that looks halfway between a fancy universal remote and a plastic cudgel. Give me those and I could crash a UN summit and have Ban KiMoon help me run off with his podium.

If you just want some extra electricity I guess it could do that, but it’s not going to inspire people to fight over dibs on drinking from your skull in 200 years.

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