Solar Battery Chargers

Thanks

Mike
MU-2

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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What is the brand and model that you purchased? Where did you buy it?

The brand is "Brunton" ( http://brunton.com/ ) I bought the product
locally at a "Fin & Feather" camping/outfitter store.

Brunton appears to be a Canadian company, with offices in Riverton,
Wyoming.
The unit is "assembled in China from European solar panels" according to
the
box.

Interestingly, they don't seem to sell my exact model on their website.
However, there are several similar units for sale there.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:U49Zb.360049$na.537399@attbi_s04...
What is the brand and model that you purchased? Where did you buy it?

The brand is "Brunton" ( http://brunton.com/ ) I bought the product
locally at a "Fin & Feather" camping/outfitter store.

I'd like to know just how much power it puts out. They seem to be confused
as to specifications on their web page. mAh x volts does not yield watts.

I'm from Buffalo, NY. What's a "solar charger"? And what's this
"sunlight" everybody
keeps talking about?

Jay Honeck wrote:

I see these things available locally for around $40 bucks. They claim to be
able to recharge cell phones and laptops. They also say they're good for
trickle-charging vehicle batteries.

My thinking is that a solar charger would be great for Sun N Fun and
Oshkosh -- places where my cell phone (and walkie-talkies, and laptop)
batteries routinely die after a few days. It also looks like something I
could use to keep my motorcycle battery charged over the winter.

Anyone purchase one of these? Do they work as advertised? How long does
it take to charge? Do they require direct sunlight?

Thanks in advance!

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:09:31 -0500, Buff5200 wrote:

I'm from Buffalo, NY. What's a "solar charger"? And what's this
"sunlight" everybody
keeps talking about?

Buffalo, NY? That's where folk with extreme sensitivity to sunlight live,
isn't it?


Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote Buffalo, NY? That's where
folk with extreme sensitivity to sunlight live,
isn't it?


Ron

Nope, that's Seattle! g
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Jim in NC


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I'm from Buffalo, NY. What's a "solar charger"?

I've often wondered: What could possess someone to live where 3-foot
snowfalls are the norm?

I hope you like snowmobiling!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Yup... You get to make snowballs with it, snowmen, snowmobiling, skiing,
sledding, photographs ...
later in the year you get to swim in it, go sailing on it, more
photographs...
later still you get to water your lawn with it, wash the car, take a shower,
more photographs...
and finally you get to watch it flow down the river towards the setting sun,
more photogrpahs
and next year it evaporates off the lakes and comes back to us as snow...
Nice stuff, snow..
denny

"Jay Honeck" wrote I've often wondered: What
could possess someone to live where 3-foot
snowfalls are the norm?

I hope you like snowmobiling!
--
Jay Honeck

Nice stuff, snow..

After 22 years in the newspaper business, I still shudder in sympathetic
pain when the snow flies.

With 100 drivers on the road, a major snowfall always meant that my phone
would ring all night long. I can't even count how many cars I jump-started
or pushed out of snowbanks...

Now, I look out the window and smile as those big flakes float gently to the
ground...

And then I remember that I now have eight 70 foot-long balconies and four
parking lots to shovel... ;-)

I hate snow.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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I'm from Buffalo, NY. What's a "solar charger"?

I've often wondered: What could possess someone to live where 3-foot
snowfalls are the norm?


Umm, this from the guy that used to live in Wisconsin?

I hope you like snowmobiling!

Weren't dey street legal oop dere fur 6 months oof da yeer? ;-)

Umm, this from the guy that used to live in Wisconsin?

Hey, I lived on the leeward side of the Big Lake. Lake effect snows were
something of an aberration -- not a way of life, like they are in Buffalo!

I hope you like snowmobiling!

Weren't dey street legal oop dere fur 6 months oof da yeer? ;-)

Back in the mid-to-late 70s, when we had that decade of really bad winters
(remember the Blizzard of '78?), snowmobiles were often the only reliable
transportation available in Wisconsin. We lived in Southeast Wisconsin,
however -- not street-legal down there.

Ya gotta go to Eagle River for that, doncha know?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"