How many extra batteries will I need for my laptop?
How many extra batteries will I need for my laptop?
Seeing as this is the UL forum.
Depends on whether you take it and if you turn it on.
In all seriousness 2-6 hours seems to be what the range of new batteries are. Just running the screen eats a lot of power. Look at the settings and adjust the sceen brightness down and make sure the processer is not doing unnecessary background things. I am sure there are more but at home one is enough.
Actually for a week or more on the trail I thought I could put a couple of small car batteries, (UL content) in one of those bag lady grocery carts.Maybe even rig a bicycle headlight generator to the wheels so it would charge as I pull it. (light weight generator, another UL reference)
Just one:
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/con...=7-10043-10273
This ought to keep your laptop running for the whole hike.
I just take my car battery out at the trailhead
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around here, UL stands for Ultra Light... not Underwriters Laboratories
Inasmuch as this is the ultralight forum, with respect, I suggest, zero.
Um, you're going ultra light, and carrying a couple car batteries???
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Various adventures in Siberia 2016
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(and maybe 2018 PCT NoBo)
At least two.
Miracles; they are by nature unbelievable so the mind must rationalize them or justify God is real.
Take a UMPC, or even the email device PocketMail.
PocketMail is useful for trail journals. It is held near the earpiece of an analogue telehone, like most pay phones.
Lightweight.
Ok I looked this isn't the humor section, so I will try to answer this question.... You would have to carry a second Li battery designed for your laptop. The idea of carrying motorcycle or alarm batteries is very impractical because few laptops are 12 volt anymore. The Laptop needs a 12 volt to 125 volt inverter (100 watt or better) to run the charger/ power supply that was included with the laptop.
Honest Connies Pocketmail or a Palm/ or a Phone with a qwerty keyboard with an extra MB chip in it is far more practical for trail journals.
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
Consider a redundant system- pen and pad.
"Fish Camp Woman.... Baby, I like the way you smell"
- Unknown Hinson
PS- You would've gotten less flack from everyone if you hadn't put this in a UL hiker forum then suggested carrying a laptop and several car batteries.
2010 AT NoBo Thru "attempt" (guess 1,700 miles didn't quite get me all the way through ;) )
Various adventures in Siberia 2016
Adventures past and present!
(and maybe 2018 PCT NoBo)
Indeed, the humor section would be more approperate.
I meet one guy who was shipping his laptop mail drop to mail drop. Never meet anyone actually lugging one around. Even the new, little netbooks would be a bit much to carry. Besides the wieght, keeping if from getting wet or otherwise damaged would be difficult.
I carry a PDA, about 8 oz with an AC charger and small solar panel to help keep it alive on longer streaches between towns. A smart phone (Iphone, Blackberry, MotoQ, etc) would do the same thing, but I don't need the phone.
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You know come to think of it, a desktop would work much better on the shelves inside all the shelters.
"Fish Camp Woman.... Baby, I like the way you smell"
- Unknown Hinson
With your external hard-drive, of course.
2010 AT NoBo Thru "attempt" (guess 1,700 miles didn't quite get me all the way through ;) )
Various adventures in Siberia 2016
Adventures past and present!
(and maybe 2018 PCT NoBo)
This should be part of Buzz's ultra-heavy thread!!!
2010 AT NoBo Thru "attempt" (guess 1,700 miles didn't quite get me all the way through ;) )
Various adventures in Siberia 2016
Adventures past and present!
(and maybe 2018 PCT NoBo)