[OLPC India] OLPC Solar Charger

[Andreas.Trawoeger at wgkk.at]

mlgvalentin at gmail.com schrieb am 01/24/2008 11:39:47 AM:
> Somewhere I found it is possible to plug directly the solar panel to
> the laptop, that looks more interesting. Did you see something like
> that ?

There is nothing special about that either. Take any solar panel you want 
connect it to the XO and it will charge the batteries.

But I doubt that its a practical solution for anything that goes beyond a 
single person traveling with a single XO for a couple of reasons:
- The XO has to be wired to the solar panel the whole time. Making it hard 
to move the XO.
- It's hard to guess how long a recharge will take
- Any energy generated after the batteries of the XO are fully charged 
will be wasted
- In the long term the changing voltages of the solar panel will shorten 
the live of the XO batteries


There are two excellent pages about the topic in the OLPC wiki with some 
tips how to reuse old car batteries for the XO:
- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Laptop_Batteries
- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Battery_and_power


cu andreas