How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
10-24-2012, 09:39 AM
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As a general rule, yes, all modern smartphones (except the ones from Mapple) charge through the micro-USB port.
You can get a teeny little dongle to plug into your car's 12v socket and provide you with a USB power outlet. The one I use hardly protrudes from the outlet at all. I think I got it at Walmart or similar. Looks kinda like this:
You can get a teeny little dongle to plug into your car's 12v socket and provide you with a USB power outlet. The one I use hardly protrudes from the outlet at all. I think I got it at Walmart or similar. Looks kinda like this:
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10-24-2012, 11:44 AM
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Let me tell you about how much of a ****-up I am.
Our leadership decided at the national level that we would no longer work in offices or cubicles, we now do the "collaborative workspace". Our luxurious cube walls were taken down and there is new furniture coming.
I'm three days in now and things are bad. I cannot ******* concentrate, at all. There is something going-on everywhere I look, people are constantly talking to each other or on the phone...there is no escaping distrations. I'm sending emails to the wrong people, making huge mistakes in my work, god damn this sucks. I need to figure something out fast because this is total ****.
Our leadership decided at the national level that we would no longer work in offices or cubicles, we now do the "collaborative workspace". Our luxurious cube walls were taken down and there is new furniture coming.
I'm three days in now and things are bad. I cannot ******* concentrate, at all. There is something going-on everywhere I look, people are constantly talking to each other or on the phone...there is no escaping distrations. I'm sending emails to the wrong people, making huge mistakes in my work, god damn this sucks. I need to figure something out fast because this is total ****.
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10-24-2012, 11:46 AM
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Let me tell you about how much of a ****-up I am.
Our leadership decided at the national level that we would no longer work in offices or cubicles, we now do the "collaborative workspace". Our luxurious cube walls were taken down and there is new furniture coming.
I'm three days in now and things are bad. I cannot ******* concentrate, at all. There is something going-on everywhere I look, people are constantly talking to each other or on the phone...there is no escaping distrations. I'm sending emails to the wrong people, making huge mistakes in my work, god damn this sucks. I need to figure something out fast because this is total ****.
Our leadership decided at the national level that we would no longer work in offices or cubicles, we now do the "collaborative workspace". Our luxurious cube walls were taken down and there is new furniture coming.
I'm three days in now and things are bad. I cannot ******* concentrate, at all. There is something going-on everywhere I look, people are constantly talking to each other or on the phone...there is no escaping distrations. I'm sending emails to the wrong people, making huge mistakes in my work, god damn this sucks. I need to figure something out fast because this is total ****.
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10-24-2012, 12:15 PM
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It's official.
I have decided to get back into rc planes after an almost 14 year hiatus.
I have always regretted getting out of it in the first place. So, I have started collecting the necessary hardware, and will start building soon. I will start with a 1/5 scale J3 Piper Cub.
I have decided to get back into rc planes after an almost 14 year hiatus.
I have always regretted getting out of it in the first place. So, I have started collecting the necessary hardware, and will start building soon. I will start with a 1/5 scale J3 Piper Cub.
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10-24-2012, 01:05 PM
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Let me tell you about how much of a ****-up I am.
Our leadership decided at the national level that we would no longer work in offices or cubicles, we now do the "collaborative workspace". Our luxurious cube walls were taken down and there is new furniture coming.
I'm three days in now and things are bad. I cannot ******* concentrate, at all. There is something going-on everywhere I look, people are constantly talking to each other or on the phone...there is no escaping distrations. I'm sending emails to the wrong people, making huge mistakes in my work, god damn this sucks. I need to figure something out fast because this is total ****.
Our leadership decided at the national level that we would no longer work in offices or cubicles, we now do the "collaborative workspace". Our luxurious cube walls were taken down and there is new furniture coming.
I'm three days in now and things are bad. I cannot ******* concentrate, at all. There is something going-on everywhere I look, people are constantly talking to each other or on the phone...there is no escaping distrations. I'm sending emails to the wrong people, making huge mistakes in my work, god damn this sucks. I need to figure something out fast because this is total ****.
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10-24-2012, 01:28 PM
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I actually meant this:
2v? Did you mean 2A?
I just looked up the specs, and it does indeed include a 2A charger. (This means that the charger can deliver a maximum of 2 amps- actual current delivery is determined by the load.) And there's a note that charging from sources other than the provided charger may result in slow charging.
That said:
1: Any car USB adapter rated for at least 2A should work.
2: Something was wrong with your old car adapter.
I just looked up the specs, and it does indeed include a 2A charger. (This means that the charger can deliver a maximum of 2 amps- actual current delivery is determined by the load.) And there's a note that charging from sources other than the provided charger may result in slow charging.
That said:
1: Any car USB adapter rated for at least 2A should work.
2: Something was wrong with your old car adapter.
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10-24-2012, 01:52 PM
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I actually meant this:2v? Did you mean 2A?
I just looked up the specs, and it does indeed include a 2A charger. (This means that the charger can deliver a maximum of 2 amps- actual current delivery is determined by the load.) And there's a note that charging from sources other than the provided charger may result in slow charging.
That said:
1: Any car USB adapter rated for at least 2A should work.
2: Something was wrong with your old car adapter.
I just looked up the specs, and it does indeed include a 2A charger. (This means that the charger can deliver a maximum of 2 amps- actual current delivery is determined by the load.) And there's a note that charging from sources other than the provided charger may result in slow charging.
That said:
1: Any car USB adapter rated for at least 2A should work.
2: Something was wrong with your old car adapter.
I believe the tablet has increased the power requirement for charging beyond the limits of the computer charging power limits.
I think in theory that chargers are allowed a maximum safety limit of 5A and something like 1500mA while communicating.
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10-24-2012, 02:24 PM
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I believe the tablet has increased the power requirement for charging beyond the limits of the computer charging power limits.
I think in theory that chargers are allowed a maximum safety limit of 5A and something like 1500mA while communicating.
I think in theory that chargers are allowed a maximum safety limit of 5A and something like 1500mA while communicating.
It's not uncommon for some higher-current USB devices (portable hard drive, oscilloscopes, etc) to come with a special cable which has two A connectors on the host side; one carries power and data, the other carries power only. This was they can cheat the spec and draw up to 1000ma.
Tolerances on the host side vary somewhat as well. For instance, I have an old 2.5" portable hard drive that runs just fine on a single port when plugged into a couple of my computers (including the new E4200 laptop) but which just sits there and clicks if plugged into other of the computers (including the old Vaio laptop) without either an external supply or the Y-cable. The drive itself (a 40GB unit built in 2006) is rated at 700ma according to the label on the top.
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10-24-2012, 02:28 PM
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I actually meant this:2v? Did you mean 2A?
I just looked up the specs, and it does indeed include a 2A charger. (This means that the charger can deliver a maximum of 2 amps- actual current delivery is determined by the load.) And there's a note that charging from sources other than the provided charger may result in slow charging.
That said:
1: Any car USB adapter rated for at least 2A should work.
2: Something was wrong with your old car adapter.
I just looked up the specs, and it does indeed include a 2A charger. (This means that the charger can deliver a maximum of 2 amps- actual current delivery is determined by the load.) And there's a note that charging from sources other than the provided charger may result in slow charging.
That said:
1: Any car USB adapter rated for at least 2A should work.
2: Something was wrong with your old car adapter.
Why does my phone charge so much faster with the new Duracel cig-adapter than the china-cig-adapder? We're talking 5+ hours to charge my phone on the China-dapter, 1 hour on the new one.
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10-24-2012, 02:33 PM
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The one I pictured is 2.1A on the top port, 1A on the bottom port. Look really closely at the image and you can see this printed on it.
Yeah, these charge ratings are vastly in excess of the official USB spec, which is 500ma per port under 2.0, and 900ma per port under 3.0.
It's not uncommon for some higher-current USB devices (portable hard drive, oscilloscopes, etc) to come with a special cable which has two A connectors on the host side; one carries power and data, the other carries power only. This was they can cheat the spec and draw up to 1000ma.
Tolerances on the host side vary somewhat as well. For instance, I have an old 2.5" portable hard drive that runs just fine on a single port when plugged into a couple of my computers (including the new E4200 laptop) but which just sits there and clicks if plugged into other of the computers (including the old Vaio laptop) without either an external supply or the Y-cable. The drive itself (a 40GB unit built in 2006) is rated at 700ma according to the label on the top.
Yeah, these charge ratings are vastly in excess of the official USB spec, which is 500ma per port under 2.0, and 900ma per port under 3.0.
It's not uncommon for some higher-current USB devices (portable hard drive, oscilloscopes, etc) to come with a special cable which has two A connectors on the host side; one carries power and data, the other carries power only. This was they can cheat the spec and draw up to 1000ma.
Tolerances on the host side vary somewhat as well. For instance, I have an old 2.5" portable hard drive that runs just fine on a single port when plugged into a couple of my computers (including the new E4200 laptop) but which just sits there and clicks if plugged into other of the computers (including the old Vaio laptop) without either an external supply or the Y-cable. The drive itself (a 40GB unit built in 2006) is rated at 700ma according to the label on the top.
It has been commonly noted that tablets and the such charge more slowly from a computer's USB port than the wall outlet.
Basically I'm just agreeing with everyone and increasing my post count so I can sell shady items to you suckers
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10-24-2012, 02:36 PM
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In practical terms, the ampere is a measure of the amount of electric charge passing a point in an electric circuit per unit time with 6.241 × 1018 electrons, or one coulomb per second constituting one ampere.
Ex: Take a hose and try to fill a bucket with the faucet barely turned on, then try to fill an equivalent volume bucket with the faucet at full blast. Notice the time differential
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10-24-2012, 02:38 PM
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