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Telek · 11-01-2002, 11:16 AM

I would still be wary of long-time standbys...

Another point to remember is that car batteries are designed to give a LARGE power load for a SHORT period of time... You can get far more total power taking 60A than taking 0.5A. Even if standby only drains your battery 15% while you're using it, doing this on a daily basis will definitely wear out your battery much much sooner than if you weren't using it.

If you really wanna use standby, consider getting either a replacement or supplimental deep cycle battery... especially if you have a truck then you don't have to worry about space concerns.

However w2k and wxp do come out of hibernate really quickly if you have a small amount of memory (you don't need > 256MB in your in-car system)... Really it's only a few seconds difference between standby and hibernate, so why not just use hibernate? Save yourself some battery wear in the long run.

11-01-2002, 11:16 AM	#9
Telek Maximum Bitrate Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 844	I would still be wary of long-time standbys... Another point to remember is that car batteries are designed to give a LARGE power load for a SHORT period of time... You can get far more total power taking 60A than taking 0.5A. Even if standby only drains your battery 15% while you're using it, doing this on a daily basis will definitely wear out your battery much much sooner than if you weren't using it. If you really wanna use standby, consider getting either a replacement or supplimental deep cycle battery... especially if you have a truck then you don't have to worry about space concerns. However w2k and wxp do come out of hibernate really quickly if you have a small amount of memory (you don't need > 256MB in your in-car system)... Really it's only a few seconds difference between standby and hibernate, so why not just use hibernate? Save yourself some battery wear in the long run. __________________ *IN DEVELOPMENT* -- '96 Mustang, lilliput with PII/450 laptop, custom DC-DC power supply, 60GB; Garmin GPS; 802.11g; compact keyboard, small graphical LCDs, OBDII.