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Steve Chippy PaineMarch 23, 2015April 15, 2015Solar Equipment

1 Watt! Spring solar PC testing with the HP Stream 8.

It’s the 23rd of March. We’re into Spring in Europe and the sun has just moved above my neighbor’s house.  According to the local weatherstation there’s 365 W/m2 hitting ground level. I’m getting 1 Watt out of my 4W Changers Maroshi panel.

Steve Chippy PaineMarch 20, 2015March 20, 2015Solar Panel1 Comment

Anker 14 W of Solar Power for $59.99 (Hands-On)

Weighing just 800 grams and packing 14 W of maximum output the Anker 14W portable foldable solar charger looks like a bargain at $59.99 / €49.99. I stumbled across this at CeBIT 2015 in Hannover and took a look over it. It’s well-built, has a regulated 5V output via USB and a lot of good […]

Steve Chippy PaineMarch 13, 2013March 13, 2013Solar Power News

Changers Smart Solar Kit Arrived

The Changers solar panel, power pack/data logger and community is an interesting concept and, I think, a well designed product. Lithium battery charging and solar power don’t fit together easily but when they do you have the potential to get a powerful and lightweight solution. The equipment arrived today, it’s in working order and over […]

Steve Chippy PaineMarch 5, 2013Solar Equipment

Changers Smart Solar Charging Kit and Community

The consumer-focused solar charging sector has been damaged in recent years by the influx of cheap China-manufacture red solar chargers that really don’t do what they say. This solution from Changers.com is in a different league. I had the pleasure of speaking to the founders today and  got a bit of tech talk in. What […]

Steve Chippy PaineJuly 20, 2010April 14, 2015Solar PCs3 Comments

Viliv S10 Netbook as Solar-Powered Desktop (Cont’d)

  I talked yesterday about my testing with the Viliv S10 and my 24w solar panel. Today I’ve implemented the solution as my desktop PC. Previously (for the last 5 months) I had been using a Fujitsu U820 UMPC as my desktop. It was running Windows XP on a Intel Atom 1.6 CPU. The Viliv […]

Steve Chippy PaineMay 14, 2009April 14, 2015Solar Equipment

The Cheap, All-In-One Solar PC. iUnika Solar Announced.

Does this mean goodbye to my solar panel, my 1KG lead-acid battery and the box full of cables I have? Does these mean that you won’t have to spend over $1000 on a Solar UMPC kit now? iUnika have announced a range of very low end, low-cost netbooks which include one with a solar-panel on […]

Steve Chippy PaineMay 6, 2008April 14, 2015Solar PCs3 Comments

Solar-UMPC-powered web server testing.

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 solarumpc tour this year but I am planning to get some use […]

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 PaineOctober 11, 2007April 14, 2015Solar Power News

Solar UMPCs on the Appalachian trail.

It’s nice to see that someone else is as tech mad as me! Scott, currently residing in Cubicle 13, has decided to get out of the rat race for 18 months and he’s taking a UMPC and Solar panel with him. 18 Months! 6 months of that will be on the Appalachian trail! Scott is […]

Steve Chippy PaineSeptember 7, 2007April 14, 2015Report4 Comments

How to improve solar charging PC efficiency for consumer devices.

Last Thursday I spent a lot of time analyzing exactly how efficient my charging solution was with a real-life test. What dropped out was a rather poor picture of how inefficient the whole solar charging setup was. From over 1.2KW hitting the area of my solar panel I managed to use about 19W. That’s a […]

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