Sam

i own a similar radio shack item.  i bought it back in the day before in
dash cd players were economically available.  i used to use it to run my
portable cd players aka discmans.  its basically a multiple tap
transformer, it worked well for me and it outlasted several cd players.
if the ends supplied didn't work for the cd player i was using i would
usually just splice the end on from the ac power adapter as i never used
it any way.

jonathan

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, sam.cooks wrote:

> Radio Shack has a product, #273-1827, which is a Universal Notebook
> Adapter.  It takes 12V input and ouputs it through a range of 12V -
> 27VDC.   It comes with 6 "Adaptaplugs" to fit many different laptops and
> according to the manual, available at the website in pdf format, other
> plugs are available.
>
> Has anyone tried this or a similar product to avoid the DC to AC, then
> AC back to DC loop to run their laptop or other DC powered equipment?
>
> Sam
>
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