[OLPC-SF] XO charger surgery

[Doug Jones]

I avoided that surgery by ordering some parts from Digikey.

Here is the one I made:

http://frombob.to/XO/#car_adapter

I lessened the impact of the shipping & handling charges by ordering 
enough parts for ten adapters.  So now I have car adapters I can hand 
out to all the friends I talked into joining G1G1.  :-)


Now if they only made those parts in green....



Sameer Verma wrote:
> Sameer Verma wrote:
>> I shared this with the folks who came by on Feb 9. Here's more...with
>> pictures.
>>
>> http://sameerverma.org/blog/?postid=171
>>
>> Sameer
>>
> Forwarding an item from Irwin Taranto, with permision.
> 
> 
> On Thursday 21 February 2008 08:06 am, you wrote:
> 
>>> irwin taranto wrote:
>>   
>>>>> Great job.  I notice that you have a 12 volt solar charger.   Can you
>>>>> tell me about that?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> irwin
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday 21 February 2008 12:13 am, you wrote:
>>>     
>>>>>>> I shared this with the folks who came by on Feb 9. Here's more...with
>>>>>>> pictures.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://sameerverma.org/blog/?postid=171
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sameer
>>>>       
>>> Hi Irwin,
>>>
>>> Its a trickle charger that provides 1.5 watts. I haven't had much luck
>>> with it when the XO is running, but it will trickle-charge the XO over a
>>> longer duration. If you couple two or more, it should work much better.
>>> Assuming you have a charger can do 2 amps, you are looking at 12/2=6
>>> watts. So, to get the same performance as the wall charger, you'll need
>>> four panels. At $10 a piece, that's not bad.
>>>
>>> http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=44768
>>>
>>>
>>> Sameer
>>   
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