car charger

I am glad you asked this. I am looking for a car charger for a Inspiron 5100 so we can watch movies on long road trips.

someone said that you could just buy a 12 volt power covertor and plug the laptop into that while traveling.

I have a brand new one which I bought from dell for my inspiron 8200, would that work with yours?

If it does I'd be happy to give it to you, I live in surrey, if you are local I can take it to you or you can pick it up, if not if postage is cheap I'll send it.

JO

Oh Wow! That is very generous of you.:smileyhappy:

I live in Florida. You can email me at: patrickacox@yahoo.com

what? florida? LOL oh my goodness!

that is half across the world LOL LOL

I live in United Kingdom!

I don't think it will be a cheap job then to post it, but if you know anyone who comes over here on vacation then I'll give it to them :smileywink:

Might I recommend this "pocket inverter" 175-watt unit from Xpower:

http://www.crutchfield.com/ISEO-rgbtcspd/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=850&I=539PI175

Crutchfield (the vendor) is a well-respected home and car audio supplier (GREAT aftermarket car stereos with really cool install kits!).  This unit works GREAT!

But even Target stores have a similar unit, also by Xpower, called an Xpower 175.:

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/601-5255771-7802566?_encoding=UTF8&frombrowse=1&asin=B000157TNA

(this URL should be all one line)

 The difference is the "pocket inverter" model is smaller/flatter and comes with a short cable to allow you to plug into either a car or an airplane (the Xpower 175 might not plug into an airplane).  The Xpower Pocket Inverter is about $50, the Xpower 175 is about $40.  Both have about the same power capacity.

Enjoy!

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@fredthomke wrote:

Might I recommend this "pocket inverter" 175-watt unit from Xpower:

http://www.crutchfield.com/ISEO-rgbtcspd/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=850&I=539PI175

Crutchfield (the vendor) is a well-respected home and car audio supplier (GREAT aftermarket car stereos with really cool install kits!).  This unit works GREAT!

But even Target stores have a similar unit, also by Xpower, called an Xpower 175.:

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/601-5255771-7802566?_encoding=UTF8&frombrowse=1&asin=B000157TNA

(this URL should be all one line)

 The difference is the "pocket inverter" model is smaller/flatter and comes with a short cable to allow you to plug into either a car or an airplane (the Xpower 175 might not plug into an airplane).  The Xpower Pocket Inverter is about $50, the Xpower 175 is about $40.  Both have about the same power capacity.

Enjoy!

A couple of points:

1) Any laptop that requires more than 70 watts will not work on a plane with any adapter.  For example, you cannot run an Inspiron 9300 on a plane. 

2) You can spend under $30 and get a more powerful converter that will run the laptop and other devices.  Mine puts out 300 watts continuous, 600 watts peak.  It's bigger, and of course is not feasible for an airplane.

3) I researched the XPower device you listed from Target and found people said it was not of very high quality.