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Paseo gets a solar sun roof

Well, gascort showed us all up with his fancy solar roof, so I had to do something about that.

I just purchased these: 36-3x3 solar cells .5v 2 amp 16% eff. tabbed WOW!!!! - eBay (item 250497687231 end time Sep-22-09 18:05:03 PDT)

They won't put out near the power that gascort has on his car, but they should be more than enough to kart me back and forth to work once a week (actually, 3x a week if my calculations are anywhere near correct). They also JUST fit in the area directly under my sunroof. The total power generated should be around 36W.

Alas, I have a delema. The underside of my sunroof has that black shade stuff on it. This is to provide some shade I'm sure. But, now its just getting in the way. Does anyone have any idea how I can get that stuff off of there? Its the black dotty/mesh stuff, not like a film tint.

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