Battery Powered Amiga ..

[J-Golden]

Is it possible to power and A1200 by dry cell rechargable batteries?
 
Has this been done before?
 
cheers
Sam.

I know Silent PAWS made a case replacement/laptop conversion kit for the A1200 and the A4000 years and years ago. Can't remember if they got off the ground or not, but I know for sure the A1200 laptop was supposed to run off of batteries.
 
BBOAH says otherwise ( http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=53 ), but I remember it being shown off at a NCAUG Meeting and distinctly remember the guy talking about the battery life and all that.

[J-Golden]

Now, since the Amiga lacks software power control, would the whole system just turn off once the battery was discharged to a certain level, or would weird things happen as parts of the board began to lose power?

I wonder if you could do a APC UPS type deal and hook a logic board between the battery and the serial port for a simple comm program that would notify you when the battery reached a certain level.

[J-Golden]

I guess the next step would be to use a Laptop keyboard to cut down on the height.  Would a simple PC-to-Amiga keyboard converter made for the A1200 work?  I know Elbox made one that I liked quite a bit...