Solar power for the Zaon MRX collision avoidance system

EXCELLENT!

Mine is already connected to ship's power but it would clean up the
wiring up a bit to implement your solution. Thanks!

On 9/2/2015 7:25 PM, Soartech wrote:
I know they stopped making the Zaon MRX but I think it is a great little device. I'm sure there are lots of us out there that use one. However it eats up a pair of AA batteries fairly quickly. I didn't want to connect it to my 12 V battery as that is just one more load on the system. Because the Zaon is on the glare shield and always in the sun I got the idea of using a mini solar panel attatched to it. I made an Instructable on how I did this:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Sola...ilar-small-el/
It works! Total cost is about $10.

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Dan Marotta

On Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 11:55:20 AM UTC-4, Dan Marotta wrote:
EXCELLENT!



Mine is already connected to ship's power but it would clean up the
wiring up a bit to implement your solution.* Thanks!




On 9/2/2015 7:25 PM, Soartech wrote:



I know they stopped making the Zaon MRX but I think it is a great little device. I'm sure there are lots of us out there that use one. However it eats up a pair of AA batteries fairly quickly. I didn't want to connect it to my 12 V battery as that is just one more load on the system. Because the Zaon is on the glare shield and always in the sun I got the idea of using a mini solar panel attatched to it. I made an Instructable on how I did this:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Sola...ilar-small-el/
It works! Total cost is about $10.





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Dan Marotta

I use a solar powered battery pack to power an android device; search Amazon.com, typically can find them for less than $20.