Power Manager uses inproper terms

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Mon Mar 16 12:38:24 UTC 2009


Nils Kassube wrote:

> Well, you might use a car adapter for the computer to get power from the
> car battery which is DC, not AC. 

I do - and it's AC (it was _far_ cheaper to buy a 75W inverter than to buy
an actual DC car adapter)

> So I think the term external power is 
> better than AC power.

It's more correct, it's not more obvious to the IEU.  (and no, I'm not going
to explain that acronym).
-- 
derek





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