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Old 07-04-2011, 12:01 PM   #16 (permalink)
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For camping think about a couple of solar panels. Harbor freight has a 45Watt panel setup. Add one or two marine batteries and a 1000Watt inverter and you can bring your boom box, coffee pot, reading light... All without burning gas or stopping at every other Starbucks. If you set it up in the bed you can charge the batteries all day and then use the "free" electricity at night.

If you are really good you could do an alternator field discharge switch and use the solar panels/batteries to run most of your electronics. But that would be a big stretch.
I have one of these harbor frieght panels on my house, a couple of, golf cart batteries and an inverter in the furnace room and an outlet in my office and bedroom running off the inverter. It runs my desk light, fan, lamp on night stand.
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