On Aug 16, 2006, at 1:05 AM, William Chops Westfield wrote:

>> std 110 outlet at each seat would help a lot.
>>
> Doesn't scale very well.  A modern airliner has a couple hundred
> seats...  I got asked about some issues on the
> remote controlled power supply for our new ethernet switch.
> 8700 watts.  Presumably that's about 20W each for several hundred
> ethernet ports (PoE), plus a thousand watts or so for the switch
> itself.  Sigh.

For any airline flying internationally, "110" isn't the standard  
everywhere, so that'd be silly anyway.

But this website seems to think that some airline already does it...
http://www.seatguru.com/articles/in-seat_laptop_power.php

Looks like the most popular is 15VDC.

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Nate Duehr
nate@natetech.com



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