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#16 Deepsycher

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Posted 04 May 2007 - 12:42 PM

I found the specifications for that.

For the power cord do you mean power supply?

I'll post some of my old laptops later after I finish my work.

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Posted 04 May 2007 - 01:35 PM

yes, that's it! and yes, I did mean the power supply.

I did manage to get a cord that on one end, plugs into where the laptop's power supply should plug into, and on the other end is like a largish circular plug that has five prongs inside of it arranged in a half-circle shape, it kind of looks like some sort of audio or MIDI cable?? it looks pretty useless, other than that it plugs into the laptop. Unless I can somehow attach it to a power supply....

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#18 Deepsycher

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Posted 04 May 2007 - 01:54 PM

For the specifications of that I found this:

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Power : AC adapter - 110-240V
21- 24v 3.16a Square 4 pin off centre Replacement compatible part for use with Digital HiNote Ultra 2000

Then to find the right polarities. I don't know if the other output is fixed at another voltage between the range of 21 to 24 volts or maybe to charge the battery (as I saw in an older laptop.)

I don't think it is worth the risk if you cannot find out the exact pinouts or voltages:

(1) The risk of spending money on something that might not work?

(2) The risk of damaging (or damaging it further.)

I'll look around later but I dont think I'll find anything useful as from the first time round.

Gobbler, maybe you could find out some information about those pinouts considering you work for HP?

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Posted 05 May 2007 - 09:53 PM

Toshiba T4900CT laptop:

Someone found it in a dump and sold it to me in 2001.

I was able to use a HP printer adapter to operate it which was 18 volts and precisely 1.7 amp hour.

I received some small 4 gigabyte drives in 2004 in someone's clearout which was wonderful compared to about a gigabyte in space.

The specification:

Pentium 75 (Not upgradeable as it is soldered on the board upon opening.)

Eight megabytes of memory

Chips and Technologies accelerator I think it might have been a megabyte.

Opl sound card

Display of 640*480 at 16 bit colour was good for me at the time.

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 05 May 2007 - 09:56 PM