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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.

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:22 AM, <murraymckee at wellsfargo.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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