Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] laptop car stereo

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

If your reason is amps, this of course takes very little amps.

There are splitters that turn one cig lighter into two.

It does run on AAA bats as well.

I'm certain that you could use a spare USB cord and a couple of 
resisters to bring the 5vdc level down to 2.6-3vdc.

I hang mine from one of the clips where you snap the sun-shades in which 
gives a nice lateral run for the 'antenna' across the direct-sight-line 
of the car's antenna.

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Christian M. Cepel wrote:
>
> > I've had perfect luck with the little Belkin TuneCast II 
> > http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=166903 
> > Just be sure to buy a 3' 'headphone' extension cord to plug between 
> > your device (laptop) and the TuneCast.  The antenna is attached to 
> > the jack and this serves to lengthen the antenna and give it 
> > wonderful range. The Tunecast II comes with a cig-lighter power 
> > supply and the tuning is purely digital, so it's absolutely the best 
> > of all worlds.
>
> That sounds very cool.  The problem I have with it is that I cannot 
> use the cigarette lighter for both the TuneCast and the laptop 
> simultaneously. It would be better for me to have something that could 
> extract energy from USB -- but is that even possible?
>
> That said, it's only $40 and might be very useful.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike
>
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