Archive for January, 2011
Portable Solar Chargers
Every day we see new and improved devices that use electricity. And, in increasing watts, the electricity is supplied by rechargeable batteries. The benefits of new battery technologies mean they are being used in new and exciting ways. For example, almost every new and improved small appliance includes current new electronics and the latest software together resulting in more features for your benefit. The forces of competition conspire to provide you with free, new benefits.
Haven’t times changed? There was a time when every adult had a personal time piece – usually a wrist watch – each person valued and relied on it. Today, a whole generation would rather have a cell phone. A few years ago, we laughed in exasperation at the number of clocks we reset when there was a power failure or in anticipation of the change to or from daylight savings time. Now, the blinking lights are becoming a thing of the past as those devices are improved by additional computer resources so that they use small amounts of battery supplies and their internal programming to take care of these minor chronological problems as an automatic function. The point is that we live in households and businesses that have increasing demands for stored electricity – it is just a modern reality and an acceptable trade-off in order to keep our up to date electronics working as expected. Certainly this is one of the motivations for adding solar panels and wind turbines to our homes and businesses. For our portable appliances or devices, we should consider portable solar chargers.
Portable solar chargers come in a variety of sizes and with a wide range of their own features. One of the most important is power generation capacity, the amount of watts that the charger can generate in an hour. This will give you an idea of the kind of devices that the charger will charge for you. Nothing is more frustrating than leaving your favorite device plugged in for hours before you realize that it can’t generate enough electricity to charge that device. This suggests the next important feature. Does the charger include the connectors you need for your devices? Once you know what devices can be charged, you must be sure the charger has the connectors for your devices. These are the two basic important features.
Portable solar chargers have panels that must be placed where they can convert light into electricity. These panels respond in different ways to different wavelengths of light – from infrared to ultraviolet. The panels are also available in rigid and flexible formats in various sizes. Solar panels are increasingly part of the design of all kinds of consumer goods, the panels may be single purpose photovoltaic sheets or part of your clothes or other accessories.
Rechargeable batteries should be part of your consideration simply because so many of the devices you use, require separate batteries in various formats. AA and AAA are ones you likely use in large quantities although C, D, and nine volt batteries are also very common. A portable solar charger should be part of your personal power generation planning for charging these batteries to keep your devices working well, clean and green.
Originally published here.
Joe Clement
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