Looking for a car charger solution!

[mafitso]

Hi there

Not sure if this is the right forum area to post this but here goes.

I run an Ipaq 2210 with Tom Tom 5 off it. I have a curly wurly car charger to the base unit in the car where the Ipaq plugs into but am looking for a longer straight lead. To be honest I haven't a clue where to look for one Wondered if anyone here could point me in the right direction.

Thanks

[JockTamsonsBairn]

[voidstar]

I'm looking to do something very similar. I've got an ipaq hp 4700 and I want to be able to charge this and a bluetooth gps receiver at the same time off my cigar lighter. At the moment I have a charger which has a 4mm circular jack and a connection for my pda. I want to get a gps receiver that takes mini usb as its power source, is it possible to use something like this: http://www.expansys.ie/p.aspx?i=123774 to make this work? My main question here is whether an ipaq standard barrel is 4mm, it looks like it but I'm not sure.

[mikealder]

Welcome to the forum, I would say the adaptor would work - but you need to keep the ipaq powered when running Sat Nav software or the battery will soon deplete. I would have a look at a twin cigy socket adaptor to power both devices simultaneously, although its fair to say the BT GPS units will typically last 10 hours off a full charge (some of the newer ones will run for 28+ Hours from a single charge) - Mike

[voidstar]

Thanks for the reply and welcome , Do you know of any company that has a cigar charger for both the hx4700 and a mini usb? I've searched and searched and gotten nowhere. The best I can think of is a cigar lighter that has two usb ports or else a two usb hub plugged into a cigar charger but I'm not sure if that would work.

[Pc-Mobile]

There are a couple you can use from here:
http://pc-mobile.net/zvm.htm

PU2MD or PR2MD

It is a USB cable with 2 ends: a mini-USB and Ipaq type DC plug.

So you can use with it a USB car adapter. For the Ipaq end, you can get DCQ38 from: http://pc-mobile.net/dcadapter.htm if you do not have the Ipaq original one.
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