[plug] re: ups

[Leon Brooks]

Alan Howard wrote:
> why is it that a power supply isn't made that allows both 240v and 12v
> opperation with auto switching and signaling to a serial port. it would not be
> very difficult to design as the computer power supply is already a switch mode
> type and modifying it to use both voltages is fairly straight forward. The same
> also goes for the monitors power supply. This would make for more efficient
> opperation as the power does not need to be converted to 240v then back to 12v,
> 5v, etc

And why do so many laptops (are you listening, Compaq?) require *15* volts DC?
8-16 would be better, 'coz then you could wire it straight into your cigarette
lighter or run it from an inverterless micro-RAPS.

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