Archive for March, 2011
Eight ways $100-a-barrel oil may affect you | Business Agenda
In recent weeks, the price of a barrel of oil has stayed at about $100 a barrel, and gasoline prices have been edging closer to $4 a gallon. The costs are apparently the result of events half a world away, in the Middle East. Even though plenty of oil is around, there is fear of further disruptions, and consumers, business people and politicians have all been making adjustments. Here are eight …
Published Mar 22, 2011.
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Sunforce 50048 60-Watt Solar Charging Kit
The Sunforce 50048 60 Watt Solar Charging Kit gives you another reason to love the sun — it’ll help keep your batteries charged. This kit is excellent for cabins, remote power, back-up power, and 12-volt battery charging. The kit includes a PVC mounting frame, 7 Amp charge controller, 200-watt inverter, and wiring/connection cables. And with the built-in blocking diode technology, this charger kit is designed to protect against battery discharge at night. You can also use this kit to maintain the charge on any 12-volt battery for clean, silent operation of various electronics, such as deer feeders and landscaping pumps. The 50048 features a built-in ultra-bright blue LED charging indicator, and is a great choice for automobiles, recreational vehicles (RV), tractors, all terrain vehicles (ATV), boats, electric fences, telemetry and more, and it is even effective on cloudy days. This battery charger kit is made of durable ABS plastic and amorphous solar cells and has a maximum temperature range of -40 to 176-degrees Fahrenheit.
The Sunforce 50048 60-Watt Solar Charging Kit gives you several more reasons to love the sun. It provides the power you need, while helping you save money and protect the environment. This kit is ideal for cabins, recreational vehicles, remote power, back-up power, and 12-volt battery charging. It comes with everything you need to start producing up to 60 Watts/4 Amps of clean, free power in all weather conditions.
 Sunforce kits are easy to set up and operate. |
Convenient Power That Helps You Save Money and Protect the Environment
The Sunforce 50048 60-Watt Solar Charging Kit lets you harness the power of the sun, the most powerful and plentiful source of energy available to us. This inexhaustible supply of power is freely available wherever the sun shines, and gives users the freedom to power their homes, RVs, boats, batteries, and electronic equipment far from civilization or right in town. Solar power can help cut your energy bills by reducing your dependence on the main electrical grid, and can also provide back-up power during outages. Unlike nuclear and fossil fuels, solar power systems are clean and pollution-free, and they require very little maintenance to operate.
 Sunforce Solar Panels are effective in areas of both high and lower sun exposure, making them ideal for use in the United States. View Larger |
Everything You Need to Power Up
The Sunforce 50048 60-Watt Solar Charging Kit has everything you need to start generating power. It includes four (4) 15-Watt amorphous solar panels with durable mounting frames, a 200-Watt modified sine wave power inverter, a 7-Amp solar charge controller, and a wiring kit with accessories for easy installation.
With built-in blocking diode technology, this solar charging kit is designed to protect against battery discharge at night. You can also use this kit to maintain the charge on any 12-Volt battery for clean, silent operation of various electronics, such as deer feeders and landscaping pumps. The included charge controller features a built-in ultra-bright blue LED charging indicator, and is a great choice for automobiles, recreational vehicles, tractors, all-terrain vehicles, boats, electric fences, telemetry and more.
About Amorphous Solar Power
Amorphous solar panels are created by spraying silicon on to glass in very thin layers, and are commonly known as thin film solar panels. This process allows them to be better at generating electricity in all lighting conditions, including cloudy or shady environments. Sunforce amorphous solar panels are weatherproof and suitable for outdoor use. They have a maximum operating temperature range of -40 to 176-degrees Fahrenheit, require virtually no maintenance, and are also effective on cloudy days. They can even withstand impacts from one-inch hailstones at 50 miles-per-hour.
Solar panels convert sunlight into an electric current, they do not store power. Sunforce Solar Charging Kits are primarily used to recharge 12-Volt batteries (not included), which store and provide usable power. The included 200-Watt power inverter allows you to use traditional 110-Volt appliances with this system. The included Sunforce 7-Amp Solar Charge Controller must be installed to prevent any connected batteries from overcharging. Once fully charged, it is normal for the charge controller LED to turn off and on as the battery voltage fluctuates from the discharge/recharge cycle.
Product Dimensions
Shipping Box: 41″ x 13 1/4″ x 16 1/4″, 62.4 lbs
Individual Panel: 42.5″ x 1.5″ x 16″, 11 lbs
Most foreign brands mobile phone charger, not the implementation of common standards
Ministry of Information Industry to implement mandatory standards for one month Universal mobile phone charger
mandatory standards since June 14 launched so far this month. From recent market survey, market using a common cell phone charger, most concentrated in the domestic brands, while foreign brands mobile phone charger is still not universal.
Ministry of Information Industry on June 14 introduced the “mobile phone chargers uniform standards” provisions of the new network and cell phones must use a common charger. Journalists in the complex telecommunications, science and technology Square Xidan see many mobile phone stores, only a few phones to use several common charger, and concentrated in the domestic brands, only Konka, Amoi and other brand mobile phone charger universal cell phone launched . Such as Konka has introduced universal charger with four models 316,319,266 and 636 mobile phones, priced around 1,800 yuan.
“Despite the universal charger uniform standards promulgated soon, but the manufacturers have tested a series of buffer, made preparations in advance.” Konka mobile phone sales staff said that although the use of a universal charger, but the handset price and did not increase.
And domestic brand mobile phones, “immediate” In sharp contrast, foreign brands mobile phone charger with universal progress has been slow. Stores in the Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and other foreign mobile phone makers, said sales staff, as mobile phones are large, the market continued to digest the standards of pre-mobile phone. Reporter asked a number of mobile phone brands, Nokia has only just off the assembly line for the 15 high-end mobile phones equipped with a universal charger 8600, foreign brands into stores in the “special case”, but offer 11,800 yuan to this common charging Mobile devices have become “luxury.”
Configuration for common foreign brand charger “leisurely” and it is in a complex telecommunications salesman, said to foreign brands to achieve universal charger does not fit reality. Manufacturers competing factors are not currently charge the phone interface, the main factor unity. “As the mobile phone companies charge different style interface, very different, if decided by the standard charger close to the design of a brand, it will lead to dissatisfaction with other brands, it is difficult to rigidly uniform.”
Ministry of Information Industry obviously do not agree with this view. “According to regulations, the new network and cell phones must use the generic charger, Ministry of Information Industry has been the source control configuration of the universal charger.” The official explained that “the new network and the public” is actually referring to the new phone models, for the June 14 phone models already on the market, even if the production or sales of more, but also not bound by mandatory standards. In accordance with the procedure, a new mobile phone models from the access network permission to put into mass production after full trial, at least the middle of the time interval of 2 months, which could result in foreign brand with universal charger, mobile phone market is slow.
Recently informed the Ministry of Information Industry was Tell Laboratory Accreditation 15 generic chargers, which have Nokia, Motorola and other foreign brands. According to industry estimate, configure Universal mobile phone charger will be listed in the near future.
News Links Charger “unified” Why can not one go?
Ministry of Information Industry launched on June 14 the “cell phone charger uniform standards” provisions of the new network and cell phones must use a common charger. Universal charger (charging cable) to connect the charging cable to the phone interface, the other end through the Socket Charger (Power Adapter) standard USB interface. Standards, different brands of home manufacturers, Block will be the universal charger, the user can replace the phone no need to replace Socket charger.
However, most consumers want, all the parts of the charger can be fully “unified.” Ministry explains that the person in charge, the phone port complete “unification” is not reality. Very large difference between the phone port, the size of it alone will affect the appearance of mobile phone design, great port, if selected, then the number of ultra-thin mobile phones to be done. If the port selected small port, where the number of contact pins are less smart phones can not meet the requirements for data transmission.
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