Systm recently did an interesting video podcast about using a car batter to replace a ups battery. They warned many times that while feasible, was not the best idea.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:22 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:murraymckee@wellsfargo.com">murraymckee@wellsfargo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I was thinking that it would be really useful to have 12V power connections on my desktop and monitor so I could just hook up an extra car battery during power outages as a UPS. Then when it got low you could just take it back out an hook it back up to the car to recharge it. Unfortunately my laptop runs on 20V so I doubt it would work if I fed it 12V, and might never work again if I connected two in series and fed it 24V.<br>
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