Portable Solar Power Generator - Never Run Out Of Power Again

By: Adrian Fletcher

Have you had your ipod battery die on you literally minutes into a long train ride ? Looks like you'll have to find some other means of entertainment. Or maybe it's your cell phone that is low on charge and you talk to someone important. Suddenly it's silent at the other end and you look to see the display is blank. That sucks, you'll have to find a public telephone that works.

I'm guilty as charged. These days I want my entertainment or business ready at the touch of a button. That's probably why I have more gadgets and hand held devices than I care to think about. However they all need power and quite often I forget to charge them fully leaving me stranded. The solution to this problem is to use a portable solar power generator.

With the interest in solar power and the increase in hand held devices, there a number of good portable solar power generators around at the moment. The standard design is similar for most of them. A solar panel or cells will react with the photons in sunlight to create direct current electricity. This is passed to a battery that stores the electricity. The generator has a power point where various devices can be plugged in to use the current of the battery as if they where plugged into a wall socket.

The advantage of the solar generator is that if it is running low on charge then sunlight will help to top it up. Of course, this implies that there is some sun out but with some of these cells even the smallest amount of sunlight is enough. And this translates to any portable device that you have on you will have a source of electricity. Those flat battery blues are over for good.

When going for a portable solar generator there are a few things to consider. First should be the type, size or efficiency of the solar panels. Bigger panels will obviously have more surface area and thus provide more direct current. This has to be weighed against bulkiness and aesthetic appeal. You want your generator to be compatible in terms of size with the devices it will be powering. And it should be comfortable to carry in a backpack or something like that, without being heavy.

You also want to find out what kind of capacity the battery has. For example, how long will an power sucking device such as a PSP last. The longer this time is the better the battery but again this has to be balanced against the size and weight of the battery if you want a generator that will be completely portable.

Something else to consider is the type of hand held devices you can plug into the generator and whether you need any adapters. At the very least it should be compatible with a cell/mobile phone, a gps device, a blackberry and a pda. You would also want it to be compatible with the popular entertainment appliances like PSP's , ipods and a dvd player.

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