Re: powering an apple by a car battery?

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Patrick Schaefer <pa.schaefer@fz-juelich.de> wrote:

>The only possibility to power the se from a battery is using an
>inverter.
>
>Be careful: you can operate the IIs form a car battery, but you should
>not have a car connected to it! With the engine running, there are
>transients up to 200V and voltage fluctuations from 9 to 15 V, this may
>be dangerous for your computer.
>If you want to charge the battery at home and use it on your boat or on
>the camping site, this is no problem.

This is a little off subject, but as I understand it, the alternator
in a car that charges the battery is actually an AC generator.
Although I am sure it is not the type of AC a computer power
supply designed to plug into a wall outlet expects, it is kind
of funny that one has to start off with AC, convert to DC, then
invert to AC again.