Seeing some of the
issues we have had in the past, we are looking into working up a power supply system for our scouting setup this year.
I know a few teams from that thread have worked with UPS's or other things, could you provide details on your power setup?
Here are my thoughts for ours so far...
Power Draw
1 Linksys Switch
6 IBM Thinkpads
1 Dell Lattitude D600
If my numbers are right, we need ~1100Wh supply to run for 9 hours
I would prefer to stick with DC, so DC-DC converters from a Marine Battery or from military BB590 Batteries (Harris has easy access to these).
It seems like a lot of teams do DC-AC-DC which is just so terribly inefficent that I don't want to lug around that extra power
Anyone do anything like this? Ideas?
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