Well, where I’ll live there’s no electrical connection, no power sockets. There’s a generator that runs from time to time so they can charge batteries but I’d prefer to being independent from that thing (I just got the information that it broke down anyway). So I did some research on that topic. I soon stumbled upon Sistech, a Swiss company located in Bubikon, who are specialised in mobile power solutions. They offer plenty of solar power based solutions for almost every purpose. I’m going to take some greedy electric equipment with me. That’s basically a notebook, camera, mobile and a kindle (which is not greedy at all). It’s no problem to charge the small stuff with a lightweight solar panel but in order to be able to charge a notebook battery I need some more power. So I drove to Bubikon and bought myself the Swisssolarcharger Volta XXL-88, which is a combination of a foldable solar panel (46 W, 17 V, 2.7 A) and a power tank (24’000 mAh, 88.8 Wh) and the necessary connector cables for notebooks, mobiles etc. The whole set weighs around 2.2 kg, which is still pretty light although they offer much lighter solutions which are still very powerful but as I’m going to stay at the same location most of the time, I decided to choose the more robust solar panel.
I’ve tried it out at home and it worked perfectly. It only took around 3 hours to charge the power tank completely and it wasn’t very sunny. So I guess I’ll have plenty of power for my equipment.
Power? – Check :-)
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