Quote Originally Posted by the evil twin View Post
What make and model is it Roscoe?

I just bought some new Dell batteries for a 1520 out of Hong kong for $28 delivered. If it is an older Toshy Sat Pro and you take the battery out you can run it off 12 volts BUT don't let the voltage drop down to much. I got away with that for years.

The best way for camping IMHO is a voltage converter (12 volts input and 13.5 15 17 etc selectable output) that plugs straight into any lappy and run off the Camping Power... Next best (but very inefficient) is to run an inverter and the 240 volt adapter into the Lappy.

Or... you can spend some bucks and get top of the wozza extended batteries for some makes but BIG bucks relatively speaking.

Running a DVD is pretty much the most power hungry application you can have so you will need either good lappy batteries or use the Camp 12 Volts/Genny or whatever
It's an 'old' Optima Centoris - ex WA guvvie job. The missus got it about 5 years ago to study with.

My next question is.... how do I set it up to run off 12v? I've got a genny, but I'd prefer not to use it. I was peace and quiet!