{"id":466,"date":"2006-05-23T07:38:05","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T12:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=466"},"modified":"2006-05-23T07:38:05","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T12:38:05","slug":"solar-battery-chargers-anybody-use-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/05\/23\/solar-battery-chargers-anybody-use-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar battery chargers: anybody use them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happened across <a href=\"http:\/\/wirelessdigest.typepad.com\/hippyshopper\/2006\/05\/sunlinq_folding.html\">this post on a UK blog <\/a>about a folding-panel solar recharging kit and it made me wonder if anybody actually uses such a thing on the trail. It sounds like one of those &#8220;great ideas&#8221; that people never get around to checking out.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backpackgeartest.org\/reviews\/Electronic%20Devices\/Solar%20Chargers\/Exponent%20Flex%205%20System%20with%20Batt%20Pak\/\">Here&#8217;s a collection of reviews at Backpackgeartest.org<\/a> discussing one Coleman model; the gist I get is that it&#8217;s more trouble (and a lot more weight) than it&#8217;s worth.<br \/>\n<P>I can see where somebody  might pack a GPS  as a &#8220;just in case I get hopelessly lost&#8221; precaution and have the solar setup as a backup, but it seems like carrying a few extra alkaline batteries would be just as effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened across this post on a UK blog about a folding-panel solar recharging kit and it made me wonder if anybody actually uses such a thing on the trail. It sounds like one of those &#8220;great ideas&#8221; that people&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/05\/23\/solar-battery-chargers-anybody-use-them\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}