Yep, but those fans require almost no power. You take some little bitty solar panel the size of a sheet of paper and lay it on the roof and it would no how no way put out the 3 amps that Koolatron needs. -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano KG6RCR
Don Spence typed: > SAAB (and others) had a solar powered system that would power vent > the car when inside temps reached a set level. (As when parked in the > sun) The panels were inconspicuous as in built in to the roof. > > > On Jun 16, 2007, at 8:16 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > >> Subject: Re: Solar panels for your Vanagon.. >> >> So .. what about solar panels to power a coolatron .. I run it off >> of my aux >> battery but I'm thinking that solar might give me more time till >> the aux >> battery is dead ..well .. it would obviously give me more time .. >> but would >> that extra time be significant. >> > |
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