"Roger Long" wrote in news:gbg6hf$d0p$1
@registered.motzarella.org:

BTW it's an Asus Eee PC 900.

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Roger Long


As to runtime, buy a 120 watt inverter built right into the cigarette
lighter plug for it. Plugged into the house battery, it should run it down
in a week or so. You won't notice it as a load.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...Specifications
This 80W one at WalMart should run it continuously just fine.

"Larry" wrote

As to runtime, buy a 120 watt inverter built right into the cigarette
lighter plug for it. Plugged into the house battery, it should run it
down
in a week or so. You won't notice it as a load.


I have a slightly larger inverter on the boat so battery life isn't an issue
there. I have found that the ASUS battery life is pretty minimal, about 45
minutes on a full charge. That's enough for a quick email or weather check
during an air travel connection but not enough to get through a short
flight. I expect my use away from a power plug to be pretty minimal though.

I had one of those little direct plug in inverters and it burned up while
running a laptop.

--
Roger Long

wrote in :

The problem with those little cheap inverters is they have tiny, LOUD,
cheap cooling fans in them that sound like an angry fly who never
sleeps.




Nope. This inverter is built into the PLUG! It has no fan and makes zero
noise as most of these SMALL inverters do. If you can't see the LED
lighting up on it, you'd never know it was running.

They barely get warm, now with their MOSFET power transistors doing the
heavy switching.

You must be hearing one of those crap cabin fans Waste Marine sells for
$50.