I was showing off my Volt and some solar power at the Kunta Kinte festival in Annapolis and had as many interested folks as I evr got at an EV event.
ANYWAY, what REALLY draws people is having an inverter hooked to the 12v battery and then lots of lightbulbs... AND A POWER STRIP FOR CELL PHONE CHARGING...! Wow, next time I will set out a table just for cell phone charging,.. Eveyrone wanted to use it. Really brought people to me. As word spread, more and more people came. A great chance to sell SOLAR POWER (I had a solar panel providing 250W and lighting 30 LED bulbs all around my car). That was all on solar power.. But I could have just used my 1 kW inverter in the car and then I could have charged all the cell phone plus kept 150 LED bulbs running just from the car even without the solar panel or on a cloudy day. See my display: http://aprs.org/Energy/Marches/KuntaKinte2018/KuntaKinta1240x.jpg But next time, I won't bother with the big 250W solar panel (can power over 40 bulbs) and just use a smaller panel which is easier to move around and then run everything on the EV battery 12v inverter. A real crowd drawer. And LED bulbs are under $1 each at Home depot in their 8 pack for $7.95 And the plastic lamp sockets are only $1.50. My display boards have 30 bulbs pluls another 7 on a fiddle board. Wow, this was fun. Bob, WB4APR _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
