Hi blog! We sourced and received almost every little thing I need to run my c-pap out in the desert. I've got a battery, solar panel, charger, inverter, and wire. It's really hard to find wire! You'd think Radio Shack would have spools of all sorts, but they only had ready-made cables for TVs and stuff, and some speaker wire. We finally found wire at the auto parts store, but they only had 10 gauge and I wanted bigger. The Internet seems to think it will be good enough, but I'll be running the thing for a week at home to make sure. The only thing I didn't find was a specific connector that goes to the solar panel. Sheldon's grabbing a set of those off Amazon right now.
I also did all the math and found out that the battery I bought should actually power my c-pap for 57 hours on one charge. 8 hours a night * 7 nights is 56 hours. That means with the 100W solar panel I'll have plenty of power to spare for charging phones and such, I'll want to run some LED lighting in the tent, and....? Oh, I should make a quick swamp cooler! What else awesome can I bring to power? The inverter's 400W.
I don't think I have time for my art project. :-/ I really wanted to build a hula hoop with total control lighting that could be programmed and then controlled via a remote to speed up or slow down the pattern or change patterns. That would probably take me $200 I shouldn't spare and a number of hours I don't have. I'm kind of bummed about that.
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