APPLE IIc: BATTERY PORTABILITY KIT; RUN IIc ON 12v SOURCE! $22.22 + $8.45 S/H

Description: Outdoor photos: Apple IIc shown at Blue Water Lake, NM, March 2014 APPLE IIC BATTERY-PORTABILITY KIT! Includes wires and connectors to operate your Apple IIc outdoors, off-the-AC-power-grid! Do Apple II computing at the beach, on a mountain top, or at any campground, even when the campground has no AC 115v outlets! Use your Apple IIc with your car battery from the cigarette-lighter socket, _or_ with a jump-start DC 12v battery, _or_ with alligator clips directly from the 12v battery terminals. You will need to get a 12v flat-screen TV to use with your Apple IIc, new on Ebay from $150.00. This battery-portability kit will work for overseas international buyers also, because car batteries and jump-start batteries are 12 volts DC, everywhere. My $22.22 battery portability kit supplies everything you will need to run the IIc on a 12c DC source. I demonstrated this kit to the Apple II experts at KansasFest, July 2014. 12v DC BATTERY PORTABILITY KIT FOR APPLE IIc "Its one small step for a IIc; But one giant leap for the Apple II community." For thirty years, the best feature of the Apple IIc has been completely overlooked: This is the only model of Apple II that is capable of running on DC battery voltage. Not even the IIc Plus can equal this. The IIc is different from all other Apple II models for this reason: It has a two-stage power supply: An external DC 15v power brick, combined with an internal power converter. The external power brick has a simple task of supplying just one DC voltage, and +12 volts DC is in the middle of its acceptable voltage range. The IIc Technical Reference manual states that the internal voltage converter can receive any DC voltage from 9v DC to 20v DC. The internal converter then creates the several voltages used at various places in the computer. All other Apple II's require the power supply to create four separate voltages: +5v DC, + 12v DC, -12v DC, and -5v DC. WHAT YOU GET IN THIS PORTABILITY KIT For $22.22 plus shipping, you will get the following: IIc Battery portability kit with 4 items: (A) 12v plug with 4 ft. cordto DIN-7 female plug (to connect to the IIc power input socket onrear panel), (B) twin-splitter adapter (to supply 12v power bothto the IIc and also to the 12v DC monitor screen), (C) female DC12v socket, with two alligator clips (To connect directly to 12vbattery terminals), and (D) 16 ft DC 12v extension cord (Toconnect IIc and the monitor to a distant car cigarette lightersocket, or directly to battery terminals, with car parked up to15 ft away from picnic table), and instruction sheet. Three of thefour items have red LED indicator lamps, to help you monitor thepower flow through the IIc system. WHAT IS PICTURED BUT IS NOT INCLUDED: Apple IIC CPU, Jump-start yellow external 12v DC battery, 19" 12v DC color video monitor, Composite video cable (RCA male to RCA male; everyone already has this cable.) BASICS OF OPERATING THE KIT The first two items, A and B, are essential and will always be used when operating the IIc on a battery. Items C and D add flexibility, if you wish to get DC power with alligator clips or from a car parked as far as 16 feet from the IIc computer. ITEM A has a cigarette lighter male plug (with LED lamp, fuse, and push-on, push-off switch). At the end of the four foot cable is the female DIN-7 power plug, that is to be inserted into the IIc power socket. Insert the cigarette plug into a power socket, and also plug the other end of the short cable directly into your IIc. The IIc will now be battery powered. ITEM B is a DC12 volt dual-splitter, with red LED lamp. This must be used every time, because your DC 12v flat screen monitor must also be plugged in to receive power. In one of the photos, you will see ITEM A plugged into the left side of the dual-splitter, and the video monitor plugged into the dual-splitter, on the right. With the IIc and also the flat screen monitor connected via short cable from the nearby DC Jump-Start battery on the tabletop, you can start computing with the IIc. ITEM C is a female cigarette lighter socket, attached to two alligator clips. Polarity is color-coded: Red is positive, black is negative. Connect the alligator clips to the car battery, then plug the ITEM B dual-splitter into the female socket of ITEM C. ITEM C is used if you wish to run power directly from an independently-carried 12v car battery, OR from the battery in your car parked at the tent site. You may use a battery that is too dead to start a car. In the photos, the yellow jump-start battery is my old one; it is too weak to start a car, but it works fine with the IIc computer. In a later update, I will tell how efficiently the yellow jump-start battery will operate the computer; I also have a newer jump-start battery and I will also test its longevity in operating the IIc. ITEM D is basically an extension cord, 16 feet long. It has a male cigarette plug at one end, and a female cigarette socket at the other end. The sole purpose for ITEM D is flexibility, to allow the computer to be powered from the car or RV camper 12v power socket, up to 16 feet away from the picnic table where the IIc is positioned. The wire in ITEM D is top quality! It is pure copper stranded wire, AGW-16 or AWG-18 gauge, wire made in U.S.A. I nearly was suckered into buying lower cost imported wire that had the same red/black color; luckily, before buying it, I learned that "CCA" means "copper-clad aluminum," an inferior wire to pure copper stranded wire. $22.22 plus shipping Priority mail padded 10x13" package COMBO SPECIAL: SAVE MONEY BY BUYING THIS KIT TOGETHER WITH IIc LAPTOP-STYLE BUGG-BRICK POWER SUPPLY Buy both: $46.22 with combined shipping. Look at my other ad: # 2212 9447 8704 That is my ad for "Bugg-Brick," a laptop-style 15v power supply for the IIc. It is 1/3 the size, and 1/4 the weight, of the bulky original IIc white power-brick. Small size promotes portability! Its price is $24.00 plus shipping. BUY BOTH COMBINED for $46.22 plus shipping. UP TO 75 KITS AVAILABLE I stated 75 as the heading number, but that means I purchased raw materials to assemble 75 kits. I have 20 kits assembled now, at launch, but can assemble another dozen kits within a week if demand/interest is high. SB SHOPPING FOR A DC 12 VOLT FLAT SCREEN MONITOR You need a 12 volt DC monitor to use this portability kit.I bought this one on Ebay in January thisyear, and am very happy with it: AXESS 19" FLAT SCREEN MODEL # TVD 1801-19 I paid $174.00, with free shipping from California. It is HD high definition, has an internal DVD disk player that works great, receives NTSC broadcasts, has inputs for HDMI, Video-S, and most importantly, composite video! If shopping, be sure the set you buy has composite video input. It is a yellow RCA-style socket, with similar red and white sockets for composite sound. The set of three RCA sockets colored yellow, red, and white is the standard for VHS video tape output. Do NOT assume that all flat screens will have the yellow RCA input socket! I looked at the rearpanel of many TVs on display at Walmart and many sets lack this composite video socket. The AXESS monitor I bought has a contrast ratio of 800:1, which far exceeds the contrast ratio of any cathode- ray traditional monitor. It consumes 32 watts (good) and even has a remote. There is a larger screen model (22") and it also consumes 32 watts. Mine has a laptop-style power supply brick for use with AC AC 115 volts. For DC 12 volts, it is a cigarette- lighter DC plug. There are many other brands of 12 volt monitors on Ebay; just be sure to confirm whether the one you buy has composite video input (yellow RCA input socket). Generous combined shipping discount Free local pickup at Gallup NM 87301. Seller is a self-proclaimed Apple II expert, having authored five articlesin Apple II magazines during the 1990s. My Apple II inventions werefeatured at the Apple II conference, KANSASFEST , during several recent years, 2013 to 2019 HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I am a self-proclaimed Apple II expert, having authored five articlesin Apple II magazines during the 1990s. My Apple II inventions werefeatured at Apple II conferences "KANSASFEST , " in several years, at Kansas City . ================================================== INTERNATIONAL: SALES TO OTHER COUNTRIES I will ship to other countries, but special conditions will apply: Insurance is included with priority flat-rate box shipping. Payment must be via PayPal, in U.S. dollars. I will retain the post officereceipt as PROOF OF MAILING. The shipping cost is based on theactual combined total weight. I must guess at the weight /postage cost. I will guess slightly high, but I will refund anyexcess amount paid for shipping/postage, to the buyer's Ebayaccount, after the item is mailed. ================================================ Stephen Buggie, psychology professor, UNM-Gallup

Price: 22.22 USD

Location: Gallup, New Mexico

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Shipping Cost: 8.45 USD