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Solar-UMPC-powered web server testing.

Published on May 6, 2008 By Steve Chippy Paine

Yes, its that time of year again where we get the first encouraging days of sunshine in Europe so I’ve been into the cellar and dusted-off my Sunlinq 24W solar panel.  Sun strength for the last 2.5 days.   I’m not planning a solar-umpc tour this year but I am planning to get some use [...]

9 days rain ahead.

Published on August 9, 2007 By Steve Chippy Paine

I know that weather is supposed to be chaos but this is just silly. The most settled weather we’ve had this year was back in April and since then its been a real mess. It doesn’t look like it wants to change much either. The whole of central Europe is stuck in a mess of [...]

Solar charging. Lead Acid vs Li-Ion

Published on June 27, 2007 By Steve Chippy Paine

In a recent comment here, someone asked why the Lead-Acid battery was needed. Its probably not too clear in the video why I use it so I reproduce my answer (which comes from the best of my knowledge!) here. There are two main problems with charging Li-Ion batteries from Solar panels. Firstly, Li-Ion batteries (in [...]

InterSolar 2007. Nothing for Solar-UMPC fans.

Published on June 22, 2007 By Steve Chippy Paine

It was an early start yesterday. 0445 rise and bus at 0530. 5 hours later after three trains and another bus I arrived at InterSolar 2007 in Freiburg, Germany hoping to find out how I could improve the UMPC Solar kit at Europe’s biggest solar expo. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much there for consumers at all. It was [...]

Mobile Internet Connectivity solutions.

Published on June 14, 2007 By Steve Chippy Paine

I learned a long time ago that WiFi Internet access is not a truly mobile Internet access solution. Its a solution for multi-location access but not a full mobile solution. Fortunately the mobile telephone carriers offer Internet access too and it ‘aint bad!Its going to be the perfect solution for the Solar-UMPC tour. In Europe, [...]

Choosing the Solar UMPC

Published on May 11, 2007 By Steve Chippy Paine

Its decision time on the UMPC and I think I’ve just about come to my conclusion – The Samsung Q1b HSDPA. Its not perfect but it covers the important requirement of efficiency very well. Maybe in a few more months there will be better options but right now I need to focus on one device [...]