Welp, I made the oddball choice to take a gaming laptop that I intend to take with me on my next trip (Cardinal to Texas Eagle). It's also my work machine so it's a bit harder to eschew.
The last thread I found on the topic (that's how I found this forum) the general recommendation was 100watts.
I would think that's a bit low. I've ridden on the Eagle when it's had the half-sleeper/half-crew car on it and I noticed in an abandoned porter's room there was a 486 computer with LCD monitor. That computer has probably been all over this nation many times over.
So, the laptop I'm bringing has a transformer brick rated 100V-240V 50/60Hz as they all do, but can draw up to 3.2A. On the DC side it outputs 20.0V of power at 14.0A, equivalent to 280 watts. My Killawatt is broken so I'm not sure what the average draw is. The wattage is flexible---as in if I opened a game and the graphics card and fans spin up it's likely to start drawing power---however the transformer itself has a beefy capacitor that will "fill" when first plugged in, so that's a bit moot.
Not quite the watts of a hair dryer (far from it, those are between 750-1875 watts), but certainly 3x more than what I've seen someone recommend here.
I have plugged in 40Ah laptop battery bricks that draw about 250 watts w/o issue. Does anyone know what the realistic recommendation is on room wattage? My understanding is that there isn't an inverter per room, everyone is sharing from a DC distribution fed from the engine (which also powers HVAC). I'm going to be on both a Viewliner and a Superliner on my trip next week.
The last thread I found on the topic (that's how I found this forum) the general recommendation was 100watts.
I would think that's a bit low. I've ridden on the Eagle when it's had the half-sleeper/half-crew car on it and I noticed in an abandoned porter's room there was a 486 computer with LCD monitor. That computer has probably been all over this nation many times over.
So, the laptop I'm bringing has a transformer brick rated 100V-240V 50/60Hz as they all do, but can draw up to 3.2A. On the DC side it outputs 20.0V of power at 14.0A, equivalent to 280 watts. My Killawatt is broken so I'm not sure what the average draw is. The wattage is flexible---as in if I opened a game and the graphics card and fans spin up it's likely to start drawing power---however the transformer itself has a beefy capacitor that will "fill" when first plugged in, so that's a bit moot.
Not quite the watts of a hair dryer (far from it, those are between 750-1875 watts), but certainly 3x more than what I've seen someone recommend here.
I have plugged in 40Ah laptop battery bricks that draw about 250 watts w/o issue. Does anyone know what the realistic recommendation is on room wattage? My understanding is that there isn't an inverter per room, everyone is sharing from a DC distribution fed from the engine (which also powers HVAC). I'm going to be on both a Viewliner and a Superliner on my trip next week.
