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Lighting solutions for camper equipment
SirPeale:
I've been contemplating building a camper for a few years now. A lot of inspiration came from here: http://www.vonslatt.com/
So I've been contemplating lighting solutions. So far what I've envisioned is this: solar charged LED lighting, complete with charging circuit for the batteries.
As this will be a homebrew project, a lot of this will be stuff salvaged from other things that has either been thrown away or is otherwise broken. For example, using the plug and batteries from an old cordless phone. That way, in the future when those batteries finally die, I can just buy new batteries that plug right into that receptacle. LEDs salvaged from XMas light strands.
ChadTower:
Building a camper out of what? You're not saying you got a bus, are you?
shardian:
A solar array and batteries would work well with LED lighting. You could power alot of things from it. Or you could just use a generator like every other camper in the world. ;D :P
Seriously though, that would be a neat project. You could also convert the bus to run on cooking oil. There was a link posted here I think of a group who did that and drove the bus all over the country promoting the thing. 1 tank for diesel, and 1 tank for oil.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shardian on January 31, 2008, 03:26:37 pm ---A solar array and batteries would work well with LED lighting. You could power alot of things from it. Or you could just use a generator like every other camper in the world. ;D :P
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It would work really well with low current stuff like LED lighting, for sure. I don't know how well he'd be able to pull off too many larger things than that reliably without a set of panels more substantial than you'd want on the roof of a vehicle.
shardian:
It could run an AC inverter, it could run a small TV, a small fan.
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