A lot of notebooks have 12 volt adapters for use in cars, trains, and airplanes. I am not sure if they natively use 12 volt but it is in the input power. I am thinking about getting a 12 volt adapter for remote psk 31 work without having to have an inverter. The nice thing is that the power requirements are not very high.
k6wrj ----- Original Message ----- From: KV9U To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 7:04 AM Subject: [digitalradio] Computers that operate on 12 vdc I am wondering if anyone is using some of the PC's that are being developed for various vehicular uses and apparently can run on regular 12 vdc power? Example: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3912331415.html These are not low cost, but appear to be very compact and could also be used for emergency powered systems. Especially if you dedicated them to ham radio programs, including digital programs. Because MS OS software is getting to be rather large for small systems, other OS's, particularly Linux OS, which is one of the most highly adaptable OS's these days, might be a more practical choice. Some distributions of Linux can be configured to run in extremely small memory if needed, not to mention that they can run with different windowing environments, some of which are ultra lightweight. On the other hand you can also run the 3 D stuff too if you have the power available. 73, Rick, KV9U
