[bookport] Re: wall plug for bookport?

Guess I found the email I was looking for. Just if anyone else wants the info...
Keith----- Original Message ----- From: "Aman Singer" <aman.singer@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <blindtech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 1:05 PM
Subject: RE: wall plug for bookport?



Hi.
Yes, it is possible to plug a Bookport into the wall. This is done
through a third party battery eliminator device which acts as batteries.
I've done this many times and it has worked well. The device I use and like 
is at
http://www.qcavionix.com
The thread below is from the Bookport list and describes my
experience with the battery eliminator. Note that I find that I don't plug
the BP into the wall most of the time, even at home or where there's a plug easily available. The Bookport, when it isn't transferring files, uses very little battery power, and I have a pair of rechargeable batteries I use with it. It's only when the unit itself will be in one place for a long time that I hook it to the battery eliminator. I've read 60 hours as the maximum life 
of standard batteries in the unit and, while I don't get that, and while I
use less powerful but more long-lasting rechargeables, I get quite a few
hours, I'd say around thirty or forty, with the unit. The battery eliminator 
is, however, very useful for those who are transferring large amounts of
files to the unit. I filled a 2 gigabyte card with data and it took a while. 
Had I been using standard batteries, I would have had to stop the transfer
to swap them at least once but, with the eliminator, this wasn't necessary. 
Aman


Hi.
The battery eliminator, which allows the BookPort to be connected to
a car's cigarette lighter socket for its power, is at
http://www.qcavionix.com
Note that you'll need to buy a transformer (available at radio
shack) which changes the wall socket to a 12 volt cigarette lighter socket
(it does both the physical and voltage change) if you want to plug your BP
into the wall.
The thread discussing the battery eliminator from last year is
below. It contains some info on the use of the product.
Aman


Hi, Keith and all others looking for a plug-in power source for the BP.
I received the battery eliminator from QCAvionix. It works very well
indeed for the BP (I'm not going to use it too often, as it impairs the
portability of the BP, which is one of the best things about the unit), but 
this is inherent in plugging the BP in. The eliminator is particularly
useful for those times when one needs to do large USB transfers. I just
finished transferring 500 files, filling up around 2 gigabytes, and don't
know how well I could have done this, which took several hours, with
standard batteries.
I'll put forward two caveats, if I may. First, setting the voltage
on the eliminator is not accessible. You set the number of cells the unit is intended to replace by twisting a knob inset into the eliminator's box. Note that you're setting number of cells, not number of volts. I nearly made that 
error, as I had set the unit to three, thinking that I was setting the
number of volts (two AA alkaline batteries give three volts, at their best). 
I was luckily undeceived before actually plugging the eliminator into
anything. In any case, you have to use a screw driver or some other object
with a flat head to do the adjusting and, though the knob does click,
there's no way of knowing which position you're at. It's best to get someone 
to have a look, as there's a risk of giving the device you're powering the
wrong voltage. Further, I don't know if using the battery eliminator causes 
damage to the BP. I've used it twice for hours at a stretch and have found
nothing wrong with the machine, and it seems quite happy to go back to
batteries, so can only say it works here, and can't guarantee it working
with repeated use, or working at all.
Again, thanks to Keith for mentioning this product. Though I'm not
going to use it for the BP particularly, it will be very useful for other
things, and for the BP on occasion.
Aman


-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Keith Watson
Sent: December 15, 2004 5:48 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: bookport improvements

Great, glad to hear that Radio Shack has such a converter. You
wouldn't happen to have a part number on this would you?

Keith

On 05:27 PM, Aman Singer wrote:

Hi, Keith.
Let me thank you publicly for this idea. I have contacted the
manufacturer of this device, QCAvionix
http://www.qcavionix.com
and have purchased the device (not for the BP, though I daresay it
would work for that, but for another device I have which requires constant 
battery power. I've also bought, from Radio shack, a 110 V to 12 V AC to

DC
converter with a cigarette lighter jack. Therefore, I can plug the battery eliminator into that adaptor, and that adaptor into the wall, and I should have permanent power. You might consider doing this, instead of connecting 
the battery straight to a transformer.
Thanks again.
Aman


-----Original Message-----
From: blindtech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blindtech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
Of Steve W
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 12:35 PM
To: blindtech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: wall plug for bookport?

I was just wondering if it's possible to get a wall plug for a Bookport. I
looked up the info on the unit and there was no mention of one, only
batteries and USB connections. but I know somebody who is getting one and
he was asking about whether or not you could plug it in so as not to use
battery power when you're just sitting around home using it rather than out 
and about.

Thanks,

Steve
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