Re: powering an apple by a car battery?

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

A car battery is only nominally 12 volt. The voltage increases as the battery is
charged and tops out at somewhere around 14 volts.
I seem to recall seeing ads for cigarette lighter adaptors for the IIc.
Of couse there wouldn't be much point unless you had an LCD screen. Even
then I'd buy the inverer just so I could run a regular monitor and actually see
what I'm doing


Rubywand wrote:

>
>      Not directly. Like, you can not run 12V to any place in the Apple II's you
> mention and expect it to work.
>
>      You _might_ be able to run an Apple //c (not a IIc+) from a car battery.
> The //c power block puts out 15VDC; so, a possible problem would be having
> enough voltage to get past an internal 12V regulator-- mainly, you might not be
> able to run your disk drives.
>
>      The easy 'all purpose' solution is to get an inverter-- a box which
> converts 12VDC to 117VAC. Then, you could just plug in your computer like you
> would at home.
>
> Rubywand