Ola,
well I am kind of these Van-Life people - just that I do not own a Van and do it with just a bicycle and some backpack,
and that I am doing this in the EU and not US.
Energy production always is a topic so you can power observation devices (lights, image intesifiers...) and communication devices.
Sadly there is no mobile wind turbine available yet for sale, so I depend only on PV at the moment,
even if I consider trying to get some juice from the dynamo of the bicycle
(if you are interested, yes there is a concept of an umbrella sized wind turbine ...)
I registered here for some research of how to use PV mobile with backpacking scenarios efficiently,
because that's some market without great concepts of products as far as I see since years:
You can get PV panels of all kind of size, environment protection classes and so on,
and you can get all kind of energy storage - but there is like no commercial product for this size to modulate the raw PV current to some stable voltage output.
Let's see if I can find some solution with your help, and hopefully without diving to deep into electronics: Back from technical school I stuck with electrics, U/V, R/ohm and I/A. Usally I love to grow expertise but for the next years I am already occupied with other topics I need to soak in.
Thanks
well I am kind of these Van-Life people - just that I do not own a Van and do it with just a bicycle and some backpack,
and that I am doing this in the EU and not US.
Energy production always is a topic so you can power observation devices (lights, image intesifiers...) and communication devices.
Sadly there is no mobile wind turbine available yet for sale, so I depend only on PV at the moment,
even if I consider trying to get some juice from the dynamo of the bicycle
(if you are interested, yes there is a concept of an umbrella sized wind turbine ...)
I registered here for some research of how to use PV mobile with backpacking scenarios efficiently,
because that's some market without great concepts of products as far as I see since years:
You can get PV panels of all kind of size, environment protection classes and so on,
and you can get all kind of energy storage - but there is like no commercial product for this size to modulate the raw PV current to some stable voltage output.
Let's see if I can find some solution with your help, and hopefully without diving to deep into electronics: Back from technical school I stuck with electrics, U/V, R/ohm and I/A. Usally I love to grow expertise but for the next years I am already occupied with other topics I need to soak in.
Thanks
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