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I love my new Netbook, but I found an interesting glitch

Discussion in 'Trucking Electronics, Gadgets and Software Forum' started by pdlsteelkev, Mar 25, 2009.

  1. Mar 25, 2009 #1
    pdlsteelkev

    pdlsteelkev Bobtail Member

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    I bought an Acer Netbook and I just love it. It has solid state memory (no hard drive to damage). However, I found an interesting glitch. My mouse touch pad would lock up even when I started Windows in safe mode. By chance, I unplugged the battery charger and the mouse unfroze. It appears that my netbook does not like my pure sinewave inverter. It seems to charge just fine but I can't use the computer while charging. I wanted to post this incase someone would run into a similar problem. Over & Out.
     
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  3. Mar 25, 2009 #2
    rookietrucker

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    I had something similar to what your having with the charging issue. I had a Dell XPS notebook and would not charge when the system was powered up. The notebook battery would get very hot when plugged in and the notebook powered up. I had to pull the battery when I was plugged in and powered up. Then I would only charge the battery when I did not have the notebook powered up. Later on, I found out these batteries I had were recall batteries. [​IMG]
     
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  4. Mar 26, 2009 #3
    FlamesFan

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    I had the same problem with an electric blanket i bought. Will not work on an inverter due to the sinewave charging wave. So back to the 12 volt i had to go.
     
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  5. Mar 26, 2009 #4
    Maxiomega

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    A standard inverter should work fine. I have run several laptops, and standard desktop computers off them with no problems. On a monitor, or tv you will get a little vertical shrink on the picture because of the square wave the inverter produces. I have never seen the reason to pay so much more for a pure wave inverter.
    Office Depot sells a travel inverter 75w that is made for a laptop. It has the airline plug, and the lighter plug, and is highly filtered to produce a quiet electrical source. No buzz.
     
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  7. Mar 27, 2009 #5
    pdlsteelkev

    pdlsteelkev Bobtail Member

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    A standard inverter does not work on electric blankets and now my laptop. I tried using my electric blanket with a standard inverter and the controls burned up in 5 min. I now use my pure sinewave inverter and my electric blanket works fine.
     
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  8. Mar 28, 2009 #6
    JakeyCakez

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    But it works fine on grid power? this I have not heard of.. The the computer shouldn't know the difference between the inverters output and the grid power. It does work fine when connected to the grid, right?

    That's because you're inverter doesn't have a sinusoidal output.

    I hate how they call it a modified sinewave... it's nothing like a sinewave.. it's a modified squarewave :3

    [​IMG]
    a chart.. sinewave is red, modified squarewave is blue..

    Anything that's uses any kind of regulation (electric blanket, power tools, variable speed fans) is generally a bad idea to run on a squarewave. Sorry to hear about smoking your electric blanket.
     
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    RBPC Thanks this.
  9. Mar 28, 2009 #7
    otrtruckerscott

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    seems a little odd to me... from the power supply on it's DC current, shouldn't have that kind of effect (mouse pad not working) even if the power supply were to choke on modified sine wave.

    myself I've never had a problem running my laptop from an inverter.

    Did fry my touchpad from static electric discharge though...
     
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  10. Mar 29, 2009 #8
    pdlsteelkev

    pdlsteelkev Bobtail Member

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    The plot thickens. When my netbook is running on battery power and my printer is running on the pure sinewave inverter, when I plug the printer into my USB port the touchpad mouse freezes. I'm wondering if a power line conditioner would help. Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks, Kevin
     
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  11. Mar 31, 2009 #9
    FlamesFan

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    Funny i have a ACER i got for xmas, widescreen 17 inch, dual hard drives, 768 memory for video alone (512 dedicated). No probs like that for me. I suggest u contact Acer and return it, there are such things as lemon laptops as like cars and trucks.
     
    FlamesFan, Mar 31, 2009
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