Re: British Air laptop power question


"Jim Beaver" <jumblejim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm traveling on British Airways in a few days. I want to use my laptop
en
route. There is a power port at my seat. An adaptor is required. The
adaptor they recommend is the Teleadapt InFlight Power Adaptor. (It fits
the EmPower in-seat power port British Air uses.) I was about to buy one
when I noticed in the product description on their website the following:
"90W power inverter."

I know next to nothing about these electrical matters, but I did notice
that
the power brick that is part of my laptop says 120W on it.

Does that mean that this inverter is insufficient to run my laptop? Or is
there no connection (!) between the two wattage listings?

Thanks.

Jim Beaver


I have a travel adapter for my Dell laptop which is of lower power than the
normal one.
when I switch on with the travel adaptor connected, The computer recognises
that and gives a warning message and asks me to press F1 to continue. When I
do so, it runs OK.

Make sure that your battery is fully charged to begin with, dont use CD/DVD
drives or hard disk much - ie stick to normal computing, not DVD/CD playing
and you will be OK for several hours. The lower power unit probably does not
have the capacity to keep everything going simultaneously.

GerryB


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