Howto: take apart the ebay Eee PC car charger

Howto: take apart the ebay Eee PC car charger

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[Reissumies]

I will do this on my van, just got a new Eee PC a week ago and trying to find AC plug at cafes is a pain and ties me couple hours to charge my laptop. I live in my van and everything needs to be working on 12V so I will by this kind of car charger soon.

Thanks for the clip, hardwiring as you said is better than dealing with that awful cig lighter DC plug.

[chisleu]

please remember that you need to reverse the polarity from what I said in the video. I had the polarity backwards. Thanks for the comment!

[chisleu]

Yeah, so the side with the fuse is indeed the hot and the red wire is the ground, dispite the stupid red colored wire.

[Reissumies]

I bought the charger and it worked for a while but then it did not supply enough current while using the laptop.

3 amps are needed to power my Eee PC 1000 while charging it at the same time as using the laptop.

I measured 2 amps first and I thought I can put up with is but then later it took ages even charge the laptop without power on so I measured again and this time the current was only about 300mA!

So I am going to return it to the supplier.

[pocketcheese1]

Sweet! - Just what I needed. I had been thinking of turning an Eee PC into a carputer but hadn't really seen anyone do it yet and I had some questions. I think i heard you say that yours would be permanently mounted in your car. I'm looking to do a removable so I can just snatch and go! Thanks again for this clip!