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Default VW Trickle Charge Solar Panel ... question
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:42:49 -0500, wrote:

All they do is try and keep a battery from going totally dead and possibly
freezing while in transit or storage. With a good light source, I'll bet it
would power a small LCD calculator, as long as it wasn't one that prints.

My calculator, a HP48, has 49 keys and a four line display. They don't
make them any larger. I call it the "Calculator that Takes No
Prisoners". Three AAA batteries last over a year. In other words, even
the largest LCD calculators use only tiny ammounts of energy.

Casady
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