Date:         Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:57:50 -0700
Reply-To:     Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Trickle Charger (follow up 182 Amps)
Comments: To: David Johnson <davidj@ELPASOTEL.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <4BE6A2D8-D936-4FA9-908F-4DDCF42F8078@elpasotel.net>
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Solar panels come in various sizes for various outputs, so there is no one answer to your
quesiton.  Do some google searching for solar panels and read up on them.  I'm about to buy one
and I was just at Canadian Tire and they have a 2 amp (Hour) solar panal for CDN$350 that puts out
2 amps "Under Ideal Conitions".  Solar is great if your electical draw is during the (sunny) day
time (fridge on a hot/sunny summer day), but if you watch your videos at night, don't expect much
from your solar panel(s) :-)

Try:  http://www.mrsolar.com/  or list member http://home.earthlink.net/~johndolsen/index.html

malcolm

--- David Johnson <davidj@ELPASOTEL.NET> wrote:

> Actually, the unit I had in mind was a solar trickle charger, not
> 110v, and that was more what I was asking about than the AC type
> units.  Does any one use one?  How much would it put back into a
> battery given a moderate day of sunlight to charge, given that most
> of the time I would be using 12v would probably be evening stuff
> (lights, maybe evening movie in a laptop, something like that.)
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> David.

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