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Stupid ways of making things work.

  • 05-10-2006 2:43am
    #1
    Tellox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭


    I've got an out of power laptop and no charger, and I need to use it fairly urgently. The charger is 12V AC, but the lappy requires 19V AC. From what I know, it should charge, but very slowly and not to full power, but I dont know a lot. Any suggestions to help me not kill a laptop?

    And on that, what stupid ways have you lot made things work in desperation?


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  • #2
    Darragh29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,097 ✭✭✭Darragh29


    Tellox wrote:
    I've got an out of power laptop and no charger, and I need to use it fairly urgently. The charger is 12V AC, but the lappy requires 19V AC. From what I know, it should charge, but very slowly and not to full power, but I dont know a lot. Any suggestions to help me not kill a laptop?

    And on that, what stupid ways have you lot made things work in desperation?

    I'm 99% sure that your laptop needs 19.5V DC. 12 VDC might keep enough of a charge on the battery to keep it alive. If you can find a 9V DC supply, you can connect this in series with your 12V DC supply and this would give you a 20V DC power supply which is 0.5V off your target, which would do no harm at all. Getting some connection fiddled together to get the current into the laptop power terminal might be tricky...


  • #3
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    The first issue is a laptop issue, so when you sort that out, you are welcome to send it back in my direction. :)


  • #4
    Caco
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Caco


    Similar problem here... the connecion is loose for the power on my laptop!
    I have to fiddle with it for a while to get it to work, tis fairly annoying!

    It'll soon be a job for the soldering iron when I'm at the end of my tether...

    EDIT: Also you could save power by not going on boards! Lol


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