Originally Posted by
freako
I have a wind up charger for my cell phone and you can get those anywhere on the internet; but I use a solar power charger for my batteries I need for my flashers when touring. I got my solar power charger from CC Crane because the one they have is the only one that will charge up regular batteries with the proper higher voltage.
http://www.ccrane.com/more-categorie...y-charger.aspx
I haven't seen a dyno powered recharger for regular batteries yet, not sure why that's not out yet when you can get radios that wind up; maybe the voltage from a wind up is too low to recharge regular batteries.
Looks like 16.66hrs assuming you get 16.66 peak sun hours to charge 2500mA batteries. It would be nice to see omething some what compact and more effecient that can charge 2500mA batteries in ~10 peak sun hours. Which might be ~2 days at 5hrs/day.
My original post was more for a way to get solar + dyno working together like on a system of wires so that the juice is always flowing into a central area collecting the power.
I'm going to check out those solar backpacks now. Now if only Deuter, Skullcandy and ICP Global or Burton would all triple team up to make a solar backpack that is daisy chainable to an external panel for more power with that air mesh back for less sweaty back feel and Skullcandys audio speakers and very simple to use audio controls on the shoulder straps.