Power a DVI monitor with a battery?

[jimhare]

Anyone have advice on how I could power a DVI monitor with a battery?

I'm thinking maybe a rechargeable car battery with a DC inverter or something.

Not really interested in generators etc.

Any thoughts?

Jim

 

[jimhare]

Anyone?

 

[Cail Young]

"DVI monitor" is very vague.

Does it have a DC input? or AC only? If you can find a DC-powered monitor then you can use block batteries.

 

[Richard Andrewski]

If its an AC powered monitor, you can just use a big UPS as would be used on a computer to keep it from going down in power outages. I've used that before but you do need a big one though and of course it all depends upon the wattage draw of your chosen monitor.

 

[David Cox]

http://www.xantrex.com/

Dave

 

[jimhare]

Thanks guys. Yeah, I was a bit vague, I did mean off the shelf A/C monitors.

If I had a D/C powered monitor, that would be too easy!

 

[Cail Young]

UPS works fine but you've got to find one that doesn't beep in boat-anchor mode (i.e. running as a battery-inverter only without inlet power).