solar power

[Linda Barwick]

Dear Gary
Tom Honeyman, one of our PARADISEC staff who has recently done 5  
months' fieldwork in a remote village in PNG, did extensive research  
on solar power options. He ended up taking a roll-up solar panel,  
which broke very soon into his stay. He's ill at the moment but  
perhaps when he is up to it he can give more information. I do know  
that he said taking a multimeter was the best thing he did. The MPI  
website also has good general information about solar power options.

http://www.mpi.nl/world/tg/AV/av.html

http://www.mpi.nl/corpus/a4guides/power-managment.pdf

all the best


Linda


On 04/04/2006, at 9:46 AM, Gary Holton wrote:

> Dear RNLD'ers,
>
> I am looking for information regarding portable solar power for  
> fieldwork. I need to be able to charge laptop batteries and video  
> camera batteries. Both specific recommendations and general  
> references would be welcomed.
>
> Thanks,
> Gary Holton
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
>