nobb

Hi.
Just curious. How long have you guys run your carpc's off the battery alone with the engine off? Were you using a DC-DC PSU, or a inverter? Approximately how much power were you drawing and how big is your battery?

I have a 52 amp hour stock battery and I am paranoid about my carpc draining it. I think I might get a second deep cycle battery which my carpc will run off, and I will use a relay to completely isolate that second battery from the main electrical system when the car is off. This way, I wont have to worry about my carpc draining my main battery and preventing me from starting my car (eg. if my computer hangs on shutdown).

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Elifromthevi

So far I would say like 40 minutes while copying a dvd b4 taking it back to block buster. Using a carnetix 1900. But one time I put the carpc in hibernate and left it for 15 minutes and the car acted funny starting up. But i need to get at tune up and a new battery.

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jcdillin

longest i've gone is 5 days in standby and 6 hours with the pc on with the car off. Both times the car started right back up like normal.

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FishPony

i have left mine on overnight a few times and at work all day with no problems. i have a yellowtop battery and m2-atx

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xBrady

I always get 5 days in standby. The 6th day I can't count on.

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hoodlum

i watched a movie for about 2 hours no problem...

blkwrx

I think the longest I've gone is about 4 hours. PC on but no programs running. I have a Redtop battery. Started no problem.

ilyassx

I'm running a 65Ah battery, 4 hours listening to music volume down without using the screen, no problem too.

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2k1Toaster

5 hours on with music "softly", screen on. YellowTop battery, started up perfectly.

1week vacation in standby, had to try twice to get to turn over, but it did. So yeah, bad idea.

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CdRsKuLL

I ran mine once until it went flat... bit silly really !

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alzzstar

I have everything hooked trough the inverter, so It would switch of after voltage goes below 11.3 v (or something like that) I also have one of those redtop Heavy duty 1000 cranking amps batteries, So i should be good for quite a while...

Legacy

i have yet to test this, but i got a yellow top so it should be good for quite a while, but my inverter shuts off when it drops below 10.5 V

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Ruffy

Dunno havent run it like that

But considering i have a laptop setup and it has a good battery, Hibernation for 6 days without turning on the car. Battery was full charge cuz... wel duh the laptop was off battery power

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