[OFB Cafe] Checkin' out the Café

[Chris Olson]

From: Fred Smith 
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 6:57 AM
To: An Open Discussion Forum on Just About Everything,Especially for Techies. 
Subject: Re: [OFB Cafe] Checkin' out the Café

> I plan on keeping the house batteries charged with a
> solar panel and a small wind generator, and getting a mooring I can
> sail to, to reduce the amount of time spent with the engine running.

I don't have electrical power run from the highway to where we park our RV on our lake property yet, so we have a solar battery charger to keep our RV batteries charged up (I think I posted on this before, with pictures, on TechTalk).  It works pretty good, if I must say so myself, as long as we don't use the 12 VDC -> 120 VAC power inverter too much.

I've seen those wind generators sticking up on top of a pole on the stern on sailboats on Lake Superior.  They seem to be pretty popular because just about every bigger sailboat I've seen on the lake has one.
--
Chris