Solor Hiking / Portable Solar Power Review
Solar Camping Backpacking Grand Canyon – Hiking the Grand Canyon offers some of the toughest backpacking found anywhere in the world. Steep trails, screed that makes you feel like your walking on marbles, intense heat, fast changing weather, and elusive water and shade combine to make for harsh conditions. I have experienced 100 degrees in the afternoon and snow and 40 MPH winds in the evening. [click to continue…]
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Brunton Portable Power, SolarRoll 14 ™ is Brunton next generation solar device is the ultimate means of powering electronic equipment in the field. Not only portable, but packable, it rolls down to nearly nothing. Brunton drive and desire to pioneer a line of rugged power sources led to the introduction of the first flexible solar panel, the SolarRoll 14. [click to continue…]
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Brunton has just come out with this small solar charger that has a powerful battery included in one package. Brunton has a winner here. Brunton has bee recently moving towards a new generation of solar powered batteries for small electronics. The Brunton portable power Restore solar powered electronic charger is the equivalent of 1,372 AA batteries which can save you about $1,500 and the environment at the same time! Brunton is truly the pioneers of portable solar power and have produced the most efficient and compact integrated solar charger available with an attractive price tag so that everyone can have one.
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Here is a very cool backpacker video made by Ryan Commons who attempted to accomplish a 211 mile 7 day trek from Whitney Portal located in the Eastern Sierra Mountains to Yosemite Valley. Solo hiking is not for the faint of heart or inexperienced. Ryan’s journey demonstrates an amazing athletic achievement coupled with his courage and tenacity. 
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How great is the SOLO™15? Field and Stream Magazine named it “Best of the Best, 2008.”
The revolutionary SOLO portable battery brings power to the weekend camper or long expedition adventurer way off the grid. Providing power wherever and whenever, the new Solo™ can operate a variety of electronics such as laptops, TVs, air-pumps, cell phones for hours with the potential for nearly unlimited power capacity. [click to continue…]
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All off-grid electrical systems have three things in common: one or more energy sources, energy storage (battery bank), and a power conversion unit (inverter). There are many different sizes and types of each of these components and each is interdependent on the others. [click to continue…]
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Solar products everyone should own. Ever get stuck somewhere and you discover your batteries are dead? Everlite reliable EL8 solar headlamp provides 40 lumens of bright white LED light for up to 12 hours in bright mode. LED running times are about 24 hours in medium mode and 36 hours in the low mode. The 2″x5″ solar panel is used for recharging the lithium battery in the headlamp. With the solar headlamp, you don’t ever have to worry about your headlamp having dead batteries ever again. Simply plug the solar panel into the DC Jack located on the headlamp to completely recharge it in 6 hours of full sunlight. [click to continue…]
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Grand Canyon National Park
Beyond my love for the outdoors and US parks, we use backpacking hiking trips in our company as opportunities to test portable solar products and renewable batteries in actual rugged backcountry conditions. About three weeks ago we received our backpacking back country hiking permit which I threw on my desk, glanced at the approved start date and did not think too much about it going about my work week. Later, upon closer inspection it became apparent that after 30 years of never receiving a permit that was in error, it finally happened. The permit was issued for 3 nights instead of eight. I brushed away my initial irritation relying instead on the Park Service’s stellar past performance and return the permit 2 weeks ago with a letter of explanation and a copy of my original permit application. [click to continue…]
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Peace of mind and security knowing that you are producing your own safe, renewable energy. Here are 18 reasons to go solar. If you would like to know the details, click Here… Reasons Go Solar. [click to continue…]
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When someone asks what I do for a living, my answer usually begins with “we mostly design and install photovoltaic systems in homes and commercial businesses”. Inevitably, the next response I get is “Hu? What’s that?” Honestly, it is a fair response to a seemingly complicated answer but thinking about solar generating electricity on many levels consumes much of my thought process and to use the word solar to describe this marvelous process just seems too broad a response. [click to continue…]
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