Re: SOLAR POWERED CHARGER JUNGLE USE..

On Oct 12, 8:14 pm, Danny Meltzer <dannymelt...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 12, 2:34 pm, "richard.pater...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

<richard.pater...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello
I was wondering if anyone had any advice, a filmaker!!! i know is
going to the south american jungle to work on a monkey sanctuary and
wants to film whilst there, apparantly there is no electricity
generators or vechicles, is there a solar power or hand crank
generator you can use to charge batteries, it will be the sony Lith
970 batts i think for a PDX10 Camera he is using, any advice how to
charge the batts would be welcome
Many thanks in advance
Richard Paterson

Get as many batteries and as many chargers as you can. The solar
chargers need several days at full strength sun to charge a battery so
if you have enough of everything you can cycle things through and not
be without power for too long.

richard,

lots of stuff on net about pedal powered generators. the gist of which
is you don't need much more than a basic bicycle (buy/beg/borrow when
you arrive), a bike stand that holds both sides of a rear wheel (from
your local bike shop), a belt and generator/alternator from a car
(breakers yard) and some timber. i'd use the wiring from said car in
breakers yard to supply solutions right up to the cigarette lighter
option on the charging gear. if the crew don't fancy a "tour de pile"
at the end of each day pay a local per battery charged and donate rig
at end of shoot.

btw. bicycle don't need tires as the belt goes straight onto wheel and
to get the equivalent out put from solar energy you're going to need a
fair few square meters of top grade solar clobber. of course if your
getting to location by car the that could be used to charge batteries
but if not, lb for £ the pedal option would probably beat the mobile
petrol generator options that are out there.
i reckon there is a design degree project out there that has a self
contained, ride-able, pedal generator screaming to be tested on such a
mission. feel free to pass my contact details on if your friend needs
some more pointers in this direction.

dan

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