On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 02:09:03 GMT, in message
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"NE Sailboat" wrote:

Funny, I was thinking about this tonight .. why? I have no idea.

Do those small black and white tv's work? How much power? How do you power
one? Battery?

While I have your attention :: how much power does a laptop take up?

Also, how long will a laptop run before it is out of juice?

I have an older IBM Thinkpad with DVD onboard. It will run almost the
full length of a movie without, but not quite. Plugged into the
battery it eats about 5 amps of 12 volt DC while running either on the
inverter or with the DC/DC power adapter.

The sound from the laptop is not adequate, but I have fixed that by
upgrading the stereo to a unit that has an aux input on the front
panel suitable for iPods or computers.

Ryk