25-30 --> ah yes, Ram wrote that and he knows better than I do On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 05:07 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Bryan Berry wrote: > > > David, good idea. > > > > there are only about 6 light bulbs at the Bishwamitra (smaller school) > > and less than 5 at Bashuki the larger school. > > that may not be enough to matter. on one of the wiki pages it mentioned > 25-30 as a number. switching to LED's will save about 90% of the power > that the bulbs currently use (plus they will last essentially forever) > > > I will have to ask Ram (our power guy) about what's available on the > > local market. > > LED lights are not readily available in the local market even in the US, > they tend to be internet orders only > > > Regards to getting some for free, it would be great if you could put us > > in contact w/ someone to donate them. In my experience it can be very > > expensive time-wise to seek donations from companies w/out an existing > > personal connection. Sometimes it just cheaper to buy something than to > > spend the time trying to get a donation. That said, a strong personal > > connection can make it very easy to get a donation. > > I don't have any personal contacts. > > David Lang > > > On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 04:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Bryan Berry wrote: > >> > >>> Sulochan Acharya and I are keeping journals of Nepal's pilot schools on > >>> the wiki and the OLE Nepal blog. > >>> > >>> http://blog.olenepal.org/ > >>> > >>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bashuki_Journal > >>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bishwamitra_Journal > >>> > >>> We will do our best to keep updating the wiki pages. > >>> > >>> We hope that reporting this info will be helpful to other pilot sites > >>> and to the larger OLPC community. > >> > >> thanks for posting this info. > >> > >> one thing that struck me as i was reading your write-ups was about the > >> power problems. both schools have very limited power, one of the schools > >> mentioned the power consumption of the light bulbs as part of the > >> calculation. Assuming that they schools are useing conventional light > >> bulbs, they could probably save more power than the laptops need to charge > >> by switching to a high-efficiancy bulb. > >> > >> given the unreliable power, florecent bulbs are probably not a reasonable > >> option, but (assuming theft is not too big a factor) LED bulbs would last > >> and save the power needed to run the other equipment. > >> > >> equipping a school with such bulbs is not cheap (a few thousand dollars > >> per school), but there may be charities around who could fund this. I'm > >> willing to bet that nobody has ever asked them to fund anything like this. > >> > >> you may be able to get some donations from the manufacturers as well. > >> > >> David Lang > > > >
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