06-17-2006, 05:00 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Inflight Power Recharger Cables Keep the Juice Flowing
"Inflight Power has developed the unique charging cable for use in the typical passenger aircraft, bus or train seat. The Inflight Power cable is designed to recharge existing low power consumer electronic devices such as: cell phones, smart phones, PDAs, music players, (and) game players."
This is one of those accessories that I'd seriously love to see with my own eyes before ever opening my wallet. The cable, which connects to an aircraft's passenger seat headset jack, uses an internal trickle charger that takes 3 to 5 minutes to fully charge, and then outputs power to the attached device for about a minute or less. Don't bet on it being able to fully charge your device; rather, it'll probably keep it just alive for moments when you have no access to other power sources.
In order for it to connect to your PDA, you'll need a separate USB sync-and-charge cable (such as the Lil' Sync Pro cables from Pocket PC Techs).
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06-17-2006, 07:54 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jun 2003
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OK, so like I said in CTMagnus' thread on ppct.
No reason that this won't work - full volume has to provide 1-2v minimum. use that to step up a capicitor (per their specs it takes 3 mins to charge the capicitor) to 5v - the capicitor jumps your IDLE/OFF PPC for 1 min, cycle 3 mins on / one off - thats equal to a "15min or so" charge in the cradle. An idle battery burns minimal power. So you should be able to lay that down for two hours at full volume and get a fully charged PDA.
Some units will trickle off a pair of AA batteries and capicitors. Others require 4 AA batteries. There is no reason why this wouldnt work.
Sven mentioned a problem with a solor charger not working. Again it should trickle CHARGE fine, but not POWER a unit turned on. If it doesn;t - then they have bad specs, bad capictors or bad math on what is required.
No reason at all this shouldn't work, I'll look for them in Minneapolis (yawn), amsterdam (HMM! - 3 hr layover!) or in Kiev and hammer on em.
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06-17-2006, 09:07 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
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FYI, on my United Business Class ("P.S.") flight to JFK-SFO last month there was an A/C outlet in the seat console for laptops, etc.
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06-17-2006, 10:32 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Nov 2007
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Originally Posted by WorksForTurkeys
FYI, on my United Business Class ("P.S.") flight to JFK-SFO last month there was an A/C outlet in the seat console for laptops, etc.
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LOL -- on my United Back-Of-Cabin, Sorry-No-Upgrades-Available IAD-SFO flight this week, there was nothing resembling an outlet. If U.S. carriers ever start offering Boeing's Connexion service, I hope they use their heads and retrofit AC outlets, too. WiFi sucks the juice from PDAs and laptops alike.
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06-17-2006, 10:59 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 177
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Originally Posted by Underwater Mike
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Originally Posted by WorksForTurkeys
FYI, on my United Business Class ("P.S.") flight to JFK-SFO last month there was an A/C outlet in the seat console for laptops, etc.
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LOL -- on my United Back-Of-Cabin, Sorry-No-Upgrades-Available IAD-SFO flight this week, there was nothing resembling an outlet. If U.S. carriers ever start offering Boeing's Connexion service, I hope they use their heads and retrofit AC outlets, too. WiFi sucks the juice from PDAs and laptops alike. |
See? for only an additional $2k you too can have an A/C outlet! and I was envious of the First-Class seats because for another $1500 they converted into full beds. :wink:
I hear that Japan Air offers massages in Business Class, but I don't think my cost center budget can handle the add-on fee.
:lol:
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