Power Supply’s for Road Warriors
I learned a thing about being a road tech warrior while watching Nacho Libre at the drive in.
That may sound like an unlikely event, and it probably is. Last summer we went to a little remote drive-in movie theater is playing a double feature of Nacho libre and the movie Cars. It was a fun little of outing even though Cars was a little long and Nacho Libre was terrible. While we were there, I ran my DC converter power supply out of the back of my minivan so we can keep cooler running.
Something blue fuse in the van in the power supply stopped working. Now as a road warrior I use that power supply to keep my computer running when it so I was little perturbed that I may have lost it. And one of the other families in our party that brought the actual cooler and have the same model of van that we do even though it was a couple years newer had mentioned earlier in the evening that their DC inverter power supply wasn’t working anymore either.
The signs were there for me to read up front but I missed them.
Will a few weeks later I finally got around to figuring out what was wrong with the power supply. I tend to the little power supply repair session, and quickly learned that wasn’t my power supply. Instead it was the van, the cooler it sucked too much juice through the DC inverter and blown a fuse, a main fuse at that in her minivan.
So I took a quick trip to the auto repair store and picked up a new fuse and replaced it, and my power supply was back up and running again.
Lesson learned be careful when you volunteer up your tech tools for non-tech events there MacGyver.
