Re: iPAQ car-mount options?

["Dave McLaughlin" <dave@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul,

I made my own power supply for the Ipaq from a National Semicondutor simple
switcher. It works well and does not get hot and gets left on all the time
to power the GPS so that it is ready each time I get in to use it.

Compaq/HP do a car charger for about £20 I believe. Plugs into the lighter
socket.

Dave...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] iPAQ car-mount options?


> Thanks Dave,
>
> Sounds like you have a seperate GPS unit? - I have the NavMan Jacket,
so
> locating it seperately from the iPAQ isn't an option.. The jacket has
a
> 128MB CF card in it with the entire UK's maps on it, but it has no
power
> connector, so I have to:
>
> - Get in car,
> - Remove iPaq from its pocket sleeve,
> - bend navman's gooseneck down
> - slide iPAQ into navman Jacket
> - Bend gooseneck back up
> - connect the USB/power connector to the bottom...
>
> Removing it is the reverse, except that the "grip" between
the iPAQ and
the
> navman jacket is greater than the grip between the jacket & the
gooseneck,
> so invariably I have to lift the whole assembly off the gooseneck
still
> docked, slide the iPAQ & the jacket apart, then put the jacket
back on the
> gooseneck...
>
> I would like to make the whole process simpler, and also make the
> installation tidier, - the power cable is the standard Navman supplied
> cigar-lighter one that plugs in down by the handbrake, snakes around
the
> gear lever, up the middle of the dash, and then hangs over the top of
the
> hands-free phone cradle when not in use... I'd like (in the new car)
to
fix
> the power cable out of the way somewhere (inside the dash?) so that it
just
> pops out of the dash right where it's needed. - I'd also like to
change
the
> double-connector arrangement if possible, as the cigar-ligher power
lead
> terminates in a 3.5mm (?) barrel, & I then have to use the extra
adapter
> that came with the iPAQ to convert that to the propietary USB/Charge
> connector on the bottom of the iPAQ...
>
> Anyone know if a car cable is available that terminates in the right
plug
> for the iPAQ wothout having to use the adapter?
>
> TIA
>
> Paul G.