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Steve Chippy PaineJanuary 8, 2008April 14, 2015Solar Equipment

14W Solar bag. Useful but expensive.

It looks like Voltaic will be releasing a 14w solar panel bag, a huge step up from their, largely useless, at least for UMPCs, 4W bad. I hope its not a typo as the three-panel setup look exactly the same as before. If it really is 14W then I’m interested. Well almost. The design is […]

Steve Chippy PaineJuly 30, 2007April 14, 2015Solar Equipment1 Comment

Solar GPS trip recorder.

This is a solar-powered GPS and track logger. It does the things that I’ll be using my Garmin Etrex for on the tour (still delayed due to the worst summer I can remember for many years!) but in a much tidier way. Transystem Inc, the manufacturer of this product already have a solar powered GPS unit […]

Steve Chippy PaineJuly 11, 2007April 14, 2015Solar Equipment

Xantrec 300 / Sunlinq portable solar solution

Here’s a solution based on the Sunlinq 25w panel and a Xantrec 300 Plus combo lead-acid battery/inverter. Its very similar to my own solution apart from the fact that this one weighs nearly 10KG!!! A number of blogs seemed to have picked up on this solution today and are quoting 11-12 hours charging time. This figure […]

Steve Chippy PaineJune 24, 2007April 14, 2015Solar Equipment

Expedition teams. What’s your solar PC solution?

Tonight I’m doing what I’ve been doing most night for the last few months – researching solar power and solar notebook/laptop solutions. Tonight the Google search subject is expeditions. I figured that these guys must have solar computing pretty much sussed by now but I’m struggling to find a solution that can improve on my, […]

Steve Chippy PaineJune 12, 2007April 14, 2015Solar Equipment

Juice Bag and other solar backpacks.

Kornel, a member of the UMPCPortal.com team, asked my why I wasn’t using a solar backpack on the tour. He was referring to products like the Juice Bag from Reware and the Voltaic Solar Backpack.  [update: And someone has just told me about the Clear Blue Solarpac Series. Another option. Thanks Jon.] Reware Juice Bag […]

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