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| Author: | antiquedave [ Mon Dec 22, 2014 12:37 am ] |
| Post subject: | Can I charge my Vagabond from the USB port ? |
My charger seams to of stopped working (funny melted part of the plastic is the other sign) . I live in New Zealand and it will take a while to get a replacement sent out so can I charge it from a Vagabond Mini from its USB port ? |
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| Author: | Luap [ Mon Dec 22, 2014 12:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Can I charge my Vagabond from the USB port ? |
Simple answer = no. The USB port is a USB 5V output jack, not a charging jack. Sorry |
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| Author: | antiquedave [ Mon Dec 22, 2014 3:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Can I charge my Vagabond from the USB port ? |
Bugger :( |
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| Author: | Luap [ Mon Dec 22, 2014 7:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Can I charge my Vagabond from the USB port ? |
Even if you could charge a VML or copy cat from USB it would take forever to charge . . . USB doesn't provide enough power to charge a battery this large. |
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| Author: | antiquedave [ Mon Dec 22, 2014 7:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Can I charge my Vagabond from the USB port ? |
I need to get this unit up and running for now . At the moment I am looking at buying a 12v to 16v laptop charger and running the unit (minus the Vagabond battery) off my cars battery until I can import a genuine charger . Can you see any issues with that ? |
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| Author: | Luap [ Mon Dec 22, 2014 10:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Can I charge my Vagabond from the USB port ? |
Without knowing all the details, it would seem a 14.8V laptop charger, with 16V maximum output should charge the VML battery. Be sure it's rated to charge a 14.8V Lithium battery. The charger itself, without the battery, probably won't have sufficient energy to run the VML without the battery - use it to charge the battery like the factory charger. |
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| Author: | antiquedave [ Tue Dec 23, 2014 1:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Can I charge my Vagabond from the USB port ? |
I am looking at using a car cigarette lighter outlet as the power supply to the Vagabond unit . The one im looking at is a step up power supply from 12 volt to 16 volt , 8.5 amp and up to 150 watts which would have too higher output and would fry the Vagabonds battery (which needs a trickle charge) so it would have to be removed from the unit . |
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| Author: | Luap [ Wed Dec 24, 2014 12:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Can I charge my Vagabond from the USB port ? |
VML inverter draws about 20A from the battery during recycle at 16V. It's possible 8.5A may recycle it, but slowly if at all |
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