[Ham-Mac] OT: 12v adapter for Macbook

[Jonathan Thawley]

I work at an authorized apple repair center and the best route to go is
using an inverter. You would be better of to get a 120V AC inverter and use
your adapter on that.

Jonathan

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Stephen Prior <sjp at sjprior.fsnet.co.uk>wrote:

> Apologies for the off-topic posting, but with an eye on summer holidays, I
> would like to have a way of recharging the Macbook on the go from a car 12V
> supply.  Ebay has quite a collection, but having wrecked a PDA some years
> ago with a cheap supply I'm not about to repeat my mistake.  It is strange
> that Apple does not itself sell such an item, but is there anyone here who
> has bought a Macbook 12V charger and is happy with it?   Mine's the
> ordinary
> basic Macbook with the magsafe connector, about two years old.
>
> I don't really want to go down the route of a car 230V AC inverter,
> although
> I have one.  It seems daft to transform to mains voltages only to come down
> again.
>
> Thanks and 73,
>
> Stephen G4SJP
>
>
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