[Boatanchors] OT Another Harbor Freight Bargin

[Ron Trepka]

I have one and it works fine.
One problem is that the 45 watts is a maximum so expect less than 1/3 during most conditions.
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Ron


--- On Thu, 2/24/11, Bob Peters <rwpeters at swbell.net> wrote:

From: Bob Peters <rwpeters at swbell.net>
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] OT Another Harbor Freight Bargin
To: "'John Flood'" <kb1fqg at yahoo.com>, boatanchors at mailman.qth.net, r-390 at mailman.qth.net
Date: Thursday, February 24, 2011, 3:33 PM

Let us all know how this works   They have that sale on a regular basis...

Bob W1PE

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of John Flood
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 2:07 PM
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net; r-390 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Boatanchors] OT Another Harbor Freight Bargin

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
KB1FQG
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