[rescue] DC Voltage distro (Was:SGI Challenge L... )

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at mail.zill.net
Mon Sep 20 15:49:48 CDT 2004


On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:43:58PM -0700, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Ethan O'Toole said ...
> 
> > I was actually thinking if you put a couple of solar panels 
> > on the roof,
> > you could charge batteries to run yard lights and a few small things
> > (florescent lights if power is lost, radio, etc).
> > 
> > I looked it up a while ago, given 2 or 3 of them, you can run a modern
> > notebook computer. That is totally cool.
> 
> Even a small solar panel will run a flashlight ...

Except for the times you really need to use the flashlight, hmm?

--Patrick



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