[126566] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Off-Topic: use laptop only as USB power supply
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Fri May 21 10:24:35 2010
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: michael.holstein@csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 09:24:16 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <4BF68F3F.70306@csuohio.edu> from "Michael Holstein" at May 21,
2010 09:48:47 AM
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> If you're at all handy with a soldering iron, this is a fun project to
> do what you need : http://www.ladyada.net/make/mintyboost/
Tekkeon's TekCharge MP1550 is a beefier version of this; it will work with
two or four AA batteries, and provides USB. If you put rechargeables in,
it can also charge them via a secondary charging port. This has become my
solution of choice for backup power for power-hungry cell phones that
drain their batteries every other day. The flexibility of being able to
stop at any store and buy a pack of AA batteries in a crisis is great. For
me, it's passed the pocket-indestructability test of having survived more
than three months unprotected in my pocket, which typically does plastic
thingies in.
... JG
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