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The Solar Panel Simulator!
"Steve" wrote in
om: Not to be a "nit-picker", but why would you include a 40A battery charger in the list of "must have" equipment?? If you have an acre of solar panels, why couldn't you charge your batteries directly.. In light of the "loads" dis-cussed here in the past couple of weeks with the air temperature dropping, I'd hoped you would have recognized the tongue-in-cheek aspect of the simulator. If you didn't recognize it, I hope you'll get help soon....(c; -- Larry All in good fun, ok? I've always found the 4KW inverters and massive battery chargers Waste Marine sell to be just hilarious. |
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The Solar Panel Simulator!
Well, with tongue-in-cheek, I would recommend adding an invertors to the
list and plug the 40A charger into the invertor, hence eliminating the need for solar panels all together. The ultimate in battery charging system. Steve s/v Good Intentions "Larry" wrote in message ... "Steve" wrote in om: Not to be a "nit-picker", but why would you include a 40A battery charger in the list of "must have" equipment?? If you have an acre of solar panels, why couldn't you charge your batteries directly.. In light of the "loads" dis-cussed here in the past couple of weeks with the air temperature dropping, I'd hoped you would have recognized the tongue-in-cheek aspect of the simulator. If you didn't recognize it, I hope you'll get help soon....(c; -- Larry All in good fun, ok? I've always found the 4KW inverters and massive battery chargers Waste Marine sell to be just hilarious. |
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The Solar Panel Simulator!
Larry, have you considered selling plans for the simulator. You know, the
old "send $2 and a SASE". You might be missing a good bet :-) BS "Larry" wrote in message ... "Steve" wrote in om: Not to be a "nit-picker", but why would you include a 40A battery charger in the list of "must have" equipment?? If you have an acre of solar panels, why couldn't you charge your batteries directly.. In light of the "loads" dis-cussed here in the past couple of weeks with the air temperature dropping, I'd hoped you would have recognized the tongue-in-cheek aspect of the simulator. If you didn't recognize it, I hope you'll get help soon....(c; -- Larry All in good fun, ok? I've always found the 4KW inverters and massive battery chargers Waste Marine sell to be just hilarious. |
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The Solar Panel Simulator!
"Robert or Karen Swarts" wrote in
: Larry, have you considered selling plans for the simulator. You know, the old "send $2 and a SASE". You might be missing a good bet :-) Hmm....little ad in back of Popular Science. I remember them. "See through walls with these X-ray glasses!" It was there every month so you KNOW some boobs were buying them...(c; -- Larry |
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The Solar Panel Simulator!
When I was about 12 I wanted the version advertised in comic books that
allowed the wearer to see through clothes. Based on my experiences since, I'm glad I didn't get them! MMC "Larry" wrote in message ... "Robert or Karen Swarts" wrote in : Larry, have you considered selling plans for the simulator. You know, the old "send $2 and a SASE". You might be missing a good bet :-) Hmm....little ad in back of Popular Science. I remember them. "See through walls with these X-ray glasses!" It was there every month so you KNOW some boobs were buying them...(c; -- Larry |
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The Solar Panel Simulator!
MMC wrote:
When I was about 12 I wanted the version advertised in comic books that allowed the wearer to see through clothes. Based on my experiences since, I'm glad I didn't get them! MMC "Larry" wrote in message ... "See through walls with these X-ray glasses!" Does anybody know what you actually got (typically) when you actually ordered these? Just curious, -- Kees |
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The Solar Panel Simulator!
Kees Verruijt wrote in
: Does anybody know what you actually got (typically) when you actually ordered these? Just curious, Wouldn't that be admitting you actually ordered them....hee hee.. Trick question!! -- Larry |
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The Solar Panel Simulator!
Kees Verruijt wrote:
MMC wrote: When I was about 12 I wanted the version advertised in comic books that allowed the wearer to see through clothes. Based on my experiences since, I'm glad I didn't get them! MMC "Larry" wrote in message ... "See through walls with these X-ray glasses!" Does anybody know what you actually got (typically) when you actually ordered these? Just curious, A friend showed me a pair he ordered from a comic. It was some kind of flat lens with concentric grooves that unfocussed your eye so that you saw a blur, somewhat darker in the middle of the image, that suggested what an x ray might look like. They did not do as advertised. Another form of "no prescription" glasses, has lenses consisting of a piece of black plastic perforated with many small holes, each one in effect a pinhole lens. In bright light they actually worked. I know because I am quite myopic, yet could see well with these "snow blindness sunglasses," even if only in passing your eyes over what you wanted to see, like a sign, but I could see very much better with them than without any lenses at all. Not much good in the dark, though. They might actually be useful for a person in daylight whho has lost his coke bottle lenses, even if finding the emergency spares aboard a tossing sailboat might prove difficult for a person as nearly blind as myself. Perhaps if they were lime green? One would hope they would float, even if an optional floating eyglass tether harness was required. I wish I had had such a floating retainer when I barfed my guts and my teeth overboard, 25 years ago. I have since been told that such lenses will improve myopic eyes over time, but did not wear them to any length at all. I cannot believe that optometrists or occularists would not suggest a cure as opposed to a continuing treatment. Not much, I can't. Last time I took my son in for a fresh prescription, I wound up in an arguement with the occularist who doubles as a dispensing optometrist in his "studio" about the benefits of polarised clip on magnetic sunglasses as opposed to the 100 dollar "UV protecting" non-polarised patented mounting stylish crap he was pushing. He actually drew me out for about 5 minutes in his office in front of customers, refusing to believe that polarised were possibly worth about 50 bucks or less, while the UV dark lenses he was offering were not actually worth any more than dime store shades. I went out to my truck to get my polarised sailing glasses to demonstrate, wherupon he lost interest in the discussion. My 18 year old son was mortified, probably still is. Strangely, polarised glasses and mirrors do not get along very well, nor do they with LCD displays. Terry K |
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"Terry Spragg" wrote in message .. . SNIP Last time I took my son in for a fresh prescription, I wound up in an arguement with the occularist who doubles as a dispensing optometrist in his "studio" about the benefits of polarised clip on magnetic sunglasses as opposed to the 100 dollar "UV protecting" non-polarised patented mounting stylish crap he was pushing. He actually drew me out for about 5 minutes in his office in front of customers, refusing to believe that polarised were possibly worth about 50 bucks or less, while the UV dark lenses he was offering were not actually worth any more than dime store shades. I went out to my truck to get my polarised sailing glasses to demonstrate, wherupon he lost interest in the discussion. My 18 year old son was mortified, probably still is. Strangely, polarised glasses and mirrors do not get along very well, nor do they with LCD displays. Terry K Many of the LCD displays, such as radar and chart plotters, have a polarizing overlay already on the from thefactory. Wearing polarizing glasses does work to well as you have discovered. When I was a student aircraft pilot I soon found out that clip on or snap down polarized sunglasses on my regular perscription glasses when flying into the sun resulted in some real pretty rainbow patterns and not much visability through the plexiglass airplane window. All the stresses from heat forming the curved plexiglass window became visible with the polarizing glass in place. Doug K7ABX |
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