Hello, Anyone here charge their wearable with solar panels of some kind? I was thinking of getting a solar backpack [1], but then realized it only puts out 7.2V and I'm guessing since it's not designed to charge laptops that it won't run an AC inverter either. So then I looked at the "XPower Pocket Powerpack 100" [2]. The battery is designed to work with the included pocket inverter; however, there appears to be no way to charge the battery from a solar panel. Am I wrong? So now I'm thinking there just has to be a battery pack that can be charged from a DC source (ie the solar panel) and strong enough to power an inverter, even if it takes a very long time to fully charge. I took a brief look at the Solio [3], it provides 12V output not just 7.2. But it can only output 8 watts so not much use trying it with an inverter I don't think. -- Craig [1] http://www.voltaicsystems.com/bag_pouch.shtml [2] http://www.donrowe.com/inverters/xpower_100_pocket_pp.html [3] http://www.solio.com _______________________________________________ Wear-Hard mailing listhttp://www.haven.org/mailman/listinfo/wear-hard
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