On Sep 4, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Greg Smith wrote: > 6 - Charging battery: Not sure you can or should connect you XO > cable to > a car battery. I would take that out. I think it needs to be > plugged in > the "the wall". That is to a 120AC power source or whatever is the > power > source standard in your country and for the XO's adapter.
We explicitly support powering the laptop directly off a car battery. We do not, however, recommend that you connect the XO directly to a car's electrical system. If you get the wires (polarity) swapped, it will damage the laptop (blow a fuse soldered to the motherboard.) > 7 - Charging battery: This sentence sounds a little optimistic: "Any > charger whose jack fits into the XO's power port and outputs > between 11 > and 18 volts should work." We should say 11 - 18 volts DC at a > minimum. > Probably need to say that the polarity of the plug has to be > correct too. We support this. See above for warning. wad _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
