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Subject: RE: [LML] Re: Digital nav charts for iPad
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The inverter is a small box that plugs into the cigarette lighter.  12V in
/110 out -  milliamps output but enough to keep the iPad and the Dual GPS
charged.  It has a regular 110 female plug and a USB plug.  So I use a USB
cord to the Dual GPS and the MAC charging unit that comes with the iPad.  

I think the inverter came from Costco and was about $35 or $40.  

John Barrett

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From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of
Terrence O'Neill
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 10:37 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: Digital nav charts for iPad

John, thanks for that.  I hand't thought about the external GPS plug-in
limiting using the iPad for other stuff.
I also have a Garmin 396, and there's GPS in the Grand Rapids Tech EFIS...
which is why I was uncertain about getting the G3. 
What's your small cigarette lighter inverter?  And ... the USB charger to
the Dual GPS? Do you use them now -- with the G3?
Complicated by also considering going soon to an iPhone.

Terrence

 
On Dec 13, 2011, at 2:59 PM, John Barrett wrote:

> Terrence,
> 
> I can give you some advice based on experience with this. (which version
of
> iPad to buy).
> 
> I had an iPad for about a year with no G3 so I had to buy a GPS -
considered
> Bad Elf and Dual.  Purchased Dual because it is Bluetooth - same price.
> $100 approx.  It sits on the glare shield so always gets a signal.  Also I
> use a small cigarette lighter inverter to allow a 110 V charger to the
iPad
> plus a USB charger to the Dual GPS.  That way I never have to worry about
> taking them home to recharge or running out of juice because I neglected
> this step.  Much easier to deal with.  I would not even consider the Bad
Elf
> since it has to plug into the iPad and keeps you from doing anything else
> with the iPad plug while you're navigating.
> 
> I recently purchased iPad2 and got all the goodies with it.  Haven't
> purchased internet service with it yet, but I really like the GPS element
so
> that I don't have to worry about the Dual GPS.  The iPad gets a position
> solution in the car or anywhere else.  Easy to get spoiled.  Worth the
extra
> cash and I wouldn't go back.
> 
> Noting that you don't have iPhone  is another reason to get the G3.  So
many
> things the G3 gives you - if you have iPhone then a lot of the benefit is
> redundant.  Without the iPhone, the iPad2 becomes even more useful I would
> think.
> 
> JDB


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