Re: Steel wire carrying twelve volts ?

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:13:43 +1200, grumpyoldhori
<grumpyoldhori@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Geoff wrote:

Hi Grumpy, a trip away from NZ.gen?
I used a car battery with a solar panel charger for a gate opener, which
worked well. A car battery (or 2 in parallel for more capacity) is cheap
and easy to get and should have enough capacity to run the router for days
of darkness. The solar panel was pretty cheap as well for a smaller size,

What were you powering Geoff, a WRT54 ?
We played around with solar panels but with our winter
down here we found we needed a 40 watt unit.

How windy is it there? Could you maybe supplement the solar
with a small wind generator? You probably wouldn't need
anything elaborate for this.


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