Solar Power Battery

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I have a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3 digital camera, and I’m getting ready to do some traveling in rather remote areas. I want to be able to charge my batteries (Li-Ion) with a solar charger or another device without having to find a wall outlet to plug into.

I figure the only way this would be possible is by using an adapter connected to a solar charger that can plug into the DC port on my digital camera. But does this port actually charge the batteries or just run the camera off of that power?

Or, is there another way for me to charge my Li-Ion batteries with solar power or something similar?

Has anyone else dealt with a similar issue before?

Thanks for you help!

Get a solar charger for your batteries, they should be available at large stores

You can get one of those little 2 foor fake Christmas trees and then they do have lights that run on batteries. But if it is cold where you live the batteries will die faster outside in the cold. That’s a cool idea

so that Battery must go to charge by solar system and takes longtime for next recharge.

its HTW S116
this is the description

No, it’s not another MOTOKRZR rip-off. This is “eco-friendly” HTW S116 Solar Mobile Phone, that has all 47.6×84×0.8 mm surface covered with solar cells to charge it’s Li-Ion battery

The phone can provide you with 20-25 minutes of talk time after 40 minutes of charging in direct sunlight and is operational in an emergencies from the 5 candle lights.

For now the durability of the S116 Solar phone is not that impressive, especially since we are used to carry our phones in the pockets and bags, without directly exposing them to the sunlight. Still, as a provision of additional power source, the idea looks attractive.

Other features of HTW S116 include 1.3 Mpx camera, external memory card slot and 320×240 px QVGA display.

It has been presented at CeBit last week, but it was only a “paper presentation” with no actual product to see, so it’s hard to tell how close to reality HTW Solar Phone S116 is.

i also need to know how does a solar panel work
i also need to know how that one crap get in the batteries

solar panels work in an interesting way. light is absorbed by each solar cell, and light ‘photons’ bump into electrons to produce ‘voltage’/power. the process is naturally called the ‘photo-voltaic effect’. the loose electrons are captured by an electrical conductor in the solar cell (usually made of silicon) and a circuit is completed …

solar panels may generate more power than is actually needed. this extra power is simply stored in lead-acid batteries (they store upto 1000 watts).

read more about it here…

The solar panel should be able to trickle charge the extra battery when stereo not in use. No extras like amplifiers or anything power drenching. Would a straightforward car battery work for this proposed set-up or any suggestions? I am adamant in using an extra battery so please adhere to this wishlist. I hope someone somewhere have tried this!

My neighbor is going to do this to power her travel trailer, you need a deep cycle marine battery and the solar cell company tells you how many panels you need, and how long you will be able to play the radio for before it needs recharging…

With the recent introduction of plug-n-play solar chargers into the market, solar power is within the reach of just about anyone. You no longer have to be a tech savvy “do-it-yourself-er” in order to harness solar power.

What exactly is a plug-n-play solar charger? In its simplicity, it’s usually a solar panel combined with a battery pack, sold as a unit, which is capable of collecting solar energy and storing it in a battery. That’s all there is to it.

The feature that makes this type of set-up so useful is that you can use it to power or recharge your electrical devices, laptops, power tools, radios or even TVs, from the battery pack. The solar power and battery pack are sold together – so you don’t have to worry about compatibility, cables, watts, voltages, or anything like that. And you don’t have to wonder whether the setup will work or not.

By using the battery pack, instead of trying to power your equipment directly from a solar panel, you ensure that you have a steady flow of power or electricity flowing into your equipment. Even on a sunny day there can always be some clouds. When they move in front of the sun it there would be a decrease of solar energy being picked up by the panels, which would momentarily reduce the amount of electricity being produced by your solar charger. But if your equipment is connected to a battery pack (which is in turn connected to a solar panel) the battery would take up the momentary slack in solar energy.

There are other advantages to using plug-n-play solar charger kits, i addition to their steady flows of electricity. Because of the fact that the solar panels charge the battery pack, you will be able to make use of solar energy at any time, night or day, regardless of weather conditions or available sunlight. You simply make sure the solar charger is charging during daylight hours. You then use the battery to charge your laptop, cell-phone, iPod (or whatever else you need to charge) during the night, while you are sleeping.

A little known fact I will throw in is that many people think solar chargers and solar panels only work in hot climates. Not true. Solar panels collect solar energy far more efficiently when they are cold. Thus, they actually operate more efficiently in colder temperatures. This fact makes them perfectly suitable for just about any climate. All you need is daylight.

There are some factors you will need to take into account with such a solar charger setup:

1. Whether or not the battery pack is capable of powering the device you want to power

2. How long it takes for the solar panel to fully charge your battery pack.

Once you know that, you can decide whether you have found the right solar charger setup for you or not.

There are now a wide variety of ready-to-go, plug-n-play solar charger systems and do-it-yourself packages available, to suit anyone’s needs. They are used for small portable power units,cell phones, camera batteries, iPods, and laptops, etc. They are also used for larger systems which give remote or emergency power for AC and DC appliances such as radios, small TVs, cabin lighting and much, much more.

Plug-n-play devices and do-it-yourself kits are a great way to get started using solar energy at an affordable price. They bypass the need for advanced knowledge in electronics, and keep things simple.

Anna

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Where can I find battery chargers? Double and Triple A Chargers only.

Are there any that are solar powered battery chargers?

Any Car Cigarette Lighter battery chargers?

Try www.thomasdistributing.com ,good site,plenty of info,and a very good selection of chargers and batteries.

My dad has a Seiko watch (received as a gift) that doesn’t use any battery, but some kind of ingenious technology where all he has to do is shake the watch a couple of times to restore power every few weeks. It’ll last forever, but it was also probably expensive as hell. Does anyone know where I can get a watch that doesn’t need any replacement batteries for a good price?

Fossil has one just like that. you just turn your wrist and it turns a thing and generates power (almost like a portable mini power plant) you can get these for a lil’ less than $100. however seiko watches are very good watches and have a warranty i believe. my grandparents had one that lasted about 12 years.(thats pretty good for a wrist watch)

but whatever you decide hope it makes you happy.

Ok, I got alot of great replies on how to go about my project of pushing (at least) 1600W for 8 hours a day drawing 13 Amp-Hours using a 12V series/paralleled battery bank charged by Solar Panels.

Then I got a suggestion about using an inverter to convert 12V into 120V.

Question:
1) If I’m using a inverter to "invert" 12V into 120V, would I even need to establish a series/paralleled multiple battery bank? Would a single rechargeable deep-cycle battery work as the sole powersupply?

2) And if so, would it be more cost effective to instead of using solar recharge (considering the costs of going solar) rather just use a battery charger for a short amount of time to re-charge the 12V battery.

Either way, I’m thinking I’ll be able to save money on consumption. However, on a common sense perspective, given a short/long term timeframe, I’m interested to know how the cost efficiencies work out.

Thanks.

1. You probably will need to use parallel-wired batteries, because stepping-up 12V to 120V will draw 10 amps from the batteries for every amp drawn by the load (plus a bit more to account for inefficiency in the system). If you want to pull 13A from the 120V output, then you will be drawing 130A from the batteries. Multiply that by time, to find the amp-hour capacity you need — when batteries of the same voltage are connected in parallel, the amp-hour capacities are added.

2. The mains is almost always the cheapest source of electricity, simply because the electricity companies have economy of scale on their side. Solar isn’t free; there is a cost per kWh which can be worked out as:
initial cost of panels / (power output of panels in W * 0.001 * MTBF in hours)
and don’t forget that the MTBF in practice may be shorter than you think.

Since you will inevitably lose some of the energy coming from the battery charger, charging batteries from the mains and running appliances from said batteries by means of an inverter will always cost more than running your appliances straight from the mains would have done.

How about modifying an old computer UPS? These can often be picked up dirt-cheap second-hand, and usually the only thing wrong with them is that the batteries can no longer hold a full charge. And they are specially designed so as to be able to switch from mains to inverter within a half-cycle. Most of the ones I have seen use four 6V sealed lead-acid packs in series to give 24V. So you could use (series-wired pairs of 12V batteries, each giving 24V) in parallel. Disconnect the charging circuit altogether, because it’s not going to be doing much (it was designed for a much wimpier pack than you are using) and have the batteries charged directly from your solar array (which will now need series pairs of 12V panels in parallel). But leave a mains supply to the UPS. Then add a circuit which will measure the voltage coming from the batteries and, when it exceeds a certain threshhold (say about 11V), triggers a relay which disconnects the mains supply to the UPS and so trips it into action, powering your appliances from the solar-charged battery. When the batteries drop below 11V, the mains supply will be reconnected and your appliances will now work from the mains. This is the opposite of how it was supposed to work (appliances normally supplied from the batteries, with backup supply from the mains!) but should work in your case.