tasteslikefire: dude

So we've been working on installing our SPOTs out in the parking lot, sure that doesnt sound glamorous but let me tell you ... yeah ok, not glamorous, but we are _totally_ saving the planet. You know what they say, one parking lot at a time.

Anyhow, here are some pics of the panels that we are trying out, advice is welcome, we do have a little interface board which charges a pair of super caps from the panel and then offloads that to the SPOT once the charge is sufficient. Ill post more about that later, and some of the results too.

If your interested some of us interested folks are discussing this stuff over at http://yggdrasil.dev.java.net.

Here at the labs we are mostly just measuring the performance of the panels right now.

This is a picture of a commercial product we are trying out, the Solio, cool stuff but we had to hack the button to make it do what we wanted.

This is the 'benchmark' we're using, a 10 watt panel, attached to the supercap board I mentioned before.

This is a picture of the benchmark panel out in the marsh, which is right outside of our parking lot, see saving the planet. Told you.