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Panasonic CF-25 Power Supply

Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by nayr14, Dec 16, 2006.

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I have an old Panasonic CF-25 laptop. I have all the components... except the DC power supply

On the back of the laptop, it says it requires DC IN 15.1V 2.6A. I find many AC adapters for this laptop, but DC is very hard to find, unless you get one of those expensive car and plane power adapters, which I've heard seem to breakdown easily.

This forum seemed to be my last hope. I really want this laptop to power up, it should, it's a toughbook (Although my fathers office bought 12 of these for their truckers and I heard almost all of them had to be sent back for one reason or another within the first 8 months (screens, complete hard drive failures, etc))

Thanks,

Ryan

nayr14, Dec 16, 2006

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If you have an AC adapter for your laptop and want to go mobile, as in a car, buy a cheap Walmart 150-300 watt 12V to 115vac adapter. A 70W DC/DC converter WILL be expensive.

For planes the best way to go is spare batteries due to the lack of seat outlets on most domestic US flights.

Your Panasonic should run fine on 12VDC as long as you don't try to charge the battery at the same time. My 17" dell runs on 11VDC

hydra, Dec 17, 2006

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