Running a laptop

Using a car battery.
Can I just connect this to a că battery and charge my laptop or does the car have some other protection in the lighter plug that would be missing if I plug it directly?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah it should be fine. Car batteries put out 12 volts, which is WAY less than your houses wall outlet puts out.
    It might charge slow, but it wont hurt the laptop.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >only volts matter
      Based moron

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Please tell me you dont actually think that post was serious

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Well, how, in general can you distinguish genuine stupidity from faked?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            By not being stupid yourself. Im sorry you had to find out this way, anon.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Well, jokes on you because I was pretending too.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Uoooo! Well played anon, well played.

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Depends on how much your car power port can handle. USBC is getting pretty nuts in what it can do.
    The average power port can handled 15A@12V or 180W. That being a 100W charger is below the 180W limit of your car power port.
    I would not connect that charger directly to the battery without some kind of fuse between it and the battery. Chinesium shit likes to burn and a car battery is more than happy to blow that thing apart. Remember, the average car battery can deliver 500A@12V or 6000W for a short period when starting a car. The car may not draw that much, but it is available.
    All that said, the next implementation of USBC will be 48V@5A or 240W which will be above what a car charging port can handle. I don't know if that is out in the wild yet however USBC is smart enough to only pull what the charger can handle.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous
      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        You could use that however I highly recommend you put a fuse in line on the positive side. A 15A one should be fine.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          The black part has a fuse this thing

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Not sure how you plan on using that with the charger in your original post. Plus that fuse looks tiny, I doubt it'll handle the amperage needed for that charger.
            You might want to just look into other ideas. Feels like you're going to blow your laptop apart.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              It has on it f10al250
              The idea would be

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Is that really 14AWG? Looks too skinny.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'm only going to use it for 100w I doubt it will be a problem.
          Anyway it's all from a portable solar panel that was also 100w it's the accessories it had.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          The big cable says 16awg the short one has nothing on it and is probably 3x thinner but I have the baseus 100w usb c cable and it's even smaller.
          I'm running a laptop on it so it will probably never hit the 100w .

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >16awg
            >3x thinner
            I'm gonna guess that panel doesn't operate at 12V.
            If it starts to get hot on you, don't be surprised.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              The panel won't be connected the battery would be directly.
              So the thin part has the 10A fuse in it.
              Anyway il check if it warms up.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >panel won't be connected the battery would be directly
                What I mean is that if the panel is running at a higher voltage, there are fewer amps flowing over those cables you're repurposing.

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