Cigarette Lighter Socket

Cigarette Lighter Socket

Can laptops be powered off of a car's cigarette lighter socket?

I havn't yet bought a laptop. Do you know whether laptops can be powered off of a car's cigarette lighter socket? Is it just a lead or does it involve some sort of power converter/regulator?

Your car cigarette lighter will put out 12 to 14.4 volts DC at a pretty high current. If your laptop takes a 12 volt DC external power adapter, then you can connect it directly. My IBM Thinkpad adapter says it puts out 16 volts, so I would need a DC-to-DC converter to boost the 12 volts up to 16 volts. One way to do that is to buy a cheap inverter from an auto parts store to make 120 volt AC, then plug the laptop's external power adapter into the inverter.

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Cigarette Lighter Socket

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