OT: Battery Charger DIY...

[Paul Maddox]

Colin/chris,

  Sails yes, I would also add an Oar or two, and make the C5 
waterproof so it can float when it floods ;-)

  Paul

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-----Original Message-----
From:	Fraser, Colin J [SMTP:Colin.Fraser at scottishpower.plc.uk]
Sent:	Wednesday, October 20, 1999 10:12 AM
To:	'Batz Goodfortune'; Chris Crosskey; 'synth'
Subject:	RE: OT: Battery Charger DIY...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Batz Goodfortune [mailto:batzman at all-electric.com]
> Sent: 20 October 1999 06:07
> To: Chris Crosskey; 'synth'
> Subject: Re: OT: Battery Charger DIY...
> 
> At 12:49 PM 10/19/99 +0100, Chris Crosskey wrote:
> >HI Folks...
> >
> >I've just got (well recently got anyway) a Sinclair C5..it's a little
> >electric/pedal powered trike dating from the mid-eighties 
> for those of you
> >who don't know....
> 
> Secondly: I don't know what your sun's like there in the 
> summer but you
> might be able to make up a couple of hours charge time by 
> carrying solar
> panels on every available surface. After all, they race from Darwin to
> Adelaide on nothing but Solar cells. Though they have trouble 
> when it's
> over cast.

For UK use, I think a mast and sails would be a more appropriate add-on than
a solar panel.

Colin f