You might try the various automotive multimedia PCs. All of them are 12V, and some have pretty decent power savings modes.
Here's an example from Mini Box: http://www.mini-box.com/VoomPC-2-Car-PC-with-Intel-Atom-D2700DC-board?sc=8&category=1543 That one can run Win7-32. 73, matt W6NIA On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 06:27:48 -0700, you wrote: >Please allow me to hijack this thread to ask about low power >draw computers for use with the K3. > >Last field day I set up our club's digital station with a K3/10, >SignaLink USB, and a MacBook Pro. The combination worked very >well, but the MacBook Pro, connected through the Apple power >adapter and a Radio Shack inverter drew 3 to 4 times as much >power as all the rest of the system. I used the Elecraft USB ><--> RS232 cable for rig control. > >So I am looking for a computer that runs on 12 volts and draws a >minimum amount of current. It should be low noise and all those >other good things as well. My OS preferences are in order: MacOS >-- because I know it, flavors of Linux -- so I won't have to >configure a Windows system and deal with Microsoft's license >verification, and finally Windows. > >On the MacBook Pro I was running cocoaModem and RUMped. I expect >on other OSes I will run fldigi and a contest logger to be names later. > >Does anyone have any suggestions? > >Cheers - Bill, AE6JV > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >Bill Frantz |The nice thing about standards| Periwinkle >(408)356-8506 |is there are so many to choose| 16345 >Englewood Ave >www.pwpconsult.com |from. - Andrew Tanenbaum | Los Gatos, >CA 95032 > >______________________________________________________________ >Elecraft mailing list >Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >Post: mailto:[email protected] > >This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
