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by idiocrat 1108 days ago
The trick with my Lenovo 300W notebook in the airplanes is as following.

At first, with the adapter disconnected from the notebook, I charge the capacitors inside of the adapter by connecting and re-connecting repeatedly (1-2 seconds intervals). The first 5 times the breaker trips, but eventually the capacitors are charged, so no initial high current is drawn from the socket, and the breaker is happy.

Only then I connect the notebook to the adapter. I never tried to draw too much power from the airplane socket by playing GPU/CPU intensive games.

Wish you productive flights!

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Oh so this is how airplane sockets get that way.