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mafitso Occasional Visitor
Joined: Oct 04, 2006 Posts: 3
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:33 am Post subject: Looking for a car charger solution! |
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Hi there
Not sure if this is the right forum area to post this but here goes.
I run an Ipaq 2210 with Tom Tom 5 off it. I have a curly wurly car charger to the base unit in the car where the Ipaq plugs into but am looking for a longer straight lead. To be honest I haven't a clue where to look for one Wondered if anyone here could point me in the right direction.
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JockTamsonsBairn Lifetime Member
Joined: Jan 10, 2004 Posts: 2777 Location: Bonnie Scotland (West Central)
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject: Re: Looking for a car charger solution! |
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mafitso wrote: | Hi there
Not sure if this is the right forum area to post this but here goes.
I run an Ipaq 2210 with Tom Tom 5 off it. I have a curly wurly car charger to the base unit in the car where the Ipaq plugs into but am looking for a longer straight lead. To be honest I haven't a clue where to look for one Wondered if anyone here could point me in the right direction.
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I'd suggest going with a "normal" Straight USB Hotsync and Charge cable For iPaq and plug that into a Universal Car Charger USB Output. If that cable wasn't long enough, I think you could extend it with any usb extension cable.
HTH _________________ Jock
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voidstar Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:46 am Post subject: |
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I'm looking to do something very similar. I've got an ipaq hp 4700 and I want to be able to charge this and a bluetooth gps receiver at the same time off my cigar lighter. At the moment I have a charger which has a 4mm circular jack and a connection for my pda. I want to get a gps receiver that takes mini usb as its power source, is it possible to use something like this: http://www.expansys.ie/p.aspx?i=123774 to make this work? My main question here is whether an ipaq standard barrel is 4mm, it looks like it but I'm not sure. |
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mikealder Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 14, 2005 Posts: 19638 Location: Blackpool , Lancs
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome to the forum, I would say the adaptor would work - but you need to keep the ipaq powered when running Sat Nav software or the battery will soon deplete. I would have a look at a twin cigy socket adaptor to power both devices simultaneously, although its fair to say the BT GPS units will typically last 10 hours off a full charge (some of the newer ones will run for 28+ Hours from a single charge) - Mike |
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voidstar Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:06 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply and welcome , Do you know of any company that has a cigar charger for both the hx4700 and a mini usb? I've searched and searched and gotten nowhere. The best I can think of is a cigar lighter that has two usb ports or else a two usb hub plugged into a cigar charger but I'm not sure if that would work. |
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