Copyright 2008 Michael Mc Grath POB 129 Hewitt,NJ 07421.

A view of cart #2. SOLAR POWER IN ACTION! Running 26 watts CF lights. Running 15 watts boom box. Running 3.5 amp 65 watts laptop. I am off grid in this photo, sticking it to the man. This cart will run a 32 inch CRT TV and DVD player, typical 128 watts plus 10 watts. Add another 50 watts for home stereo makes total 188 watts. This happens to be right on the maximum efficiency curve for the inverter (90%). Vagabond Salvage is my alter ego. I salvage the remains of western dispoable consumerist soceity. The safest place to have an atomic fusion reactor is 93 million miles away. For many year now the pundits have been sounding the claxon alarm of gloppal warming. But there is a para-dig-em shift to gloppal ice age. Sun spots are missing. What does that portend for solar power? A stop at the dollar store where they warehouse stuff made in china will allow me to aquire a journal for entering daily insolation rates. I intend to record charging voltage of system at local noon. Look here for future postings of data. Another trip to the local auto parts store will get me an ammeter and voltage meter. I think this will spiffy up ther carts and make them scientific. And an on/off switch will be wired in as the meters will drain the batteries. However the cheapo analog voltage meters with needles will be nowhere as accurate as a digital multimeter.