[Boatanchors] OT Another Harbor Freight Bargin

[John Flood]

Greetings  

In our local paper this morning was a sheet of cupons for Harbor Freight A.K.A. 
"Home of the $2.99 multimeter".  One of them was for a 45 watt solar power "kit" 
After the $90.00 off cupon the price is $159.95.  You get three 15Watt panels 
with some sort of mounting bracket.  A box that is some type of (I hope!) charge 
controller that also has several low voltage dc outputs including USB ports 
and also a couple of 12 VDC lamps.  You need to supply storage batteries (I have 
those) and an inverter ( have those too!)  I did yield to temptation.  Not a bad 
deal for 45W of solar power.  Not sure if it's a regional thing or a special for 
our new store that just opened 1 mile from my office (cheap tools....almost as 
bad as if a surplus house opened nearby) but I thought it was worth mentioning 
here if for nothing better than to bring back the $2.99 multimeter dead horse.  
Yes they had them there too! 

Putting on the Nomex suit for the impending buy American flames....
John Flood
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