Travel: Solar power at Nara's winter camp along Onon river, near Norovlin, Khentii, Mongolia

April 02, 2013  •  Leave a Comment

Travel: Solar power at Nara's winter camp along Onon river, near Norovlin, Khentii, Mongolia. The large solar panel generates sufficient electricity for light inside the ger at night, a form of mobile or cell phone that looks and operates as a land line, and a limited amount  of TV or video in the evening. The small 4W solar panel (Voltaic) is mine (see the second photo below for detail). I bought it specifically for this trip and used it to recharge my camera batteries as I expected to be off the grid for about 10 days with very low temperatures which cause the batteries to drain very quickly. The solar panel worked very well. With the sun we experienced it easily charged one DSLR camera battery per day, even with -4F (-20C) as the high, and I never ran low with five batteries in total per camera. Make sure though you make it face south when you leave it for the day; you want to maximize the exposure to the sun and of course you can't adjust it if you are gone all day.... It is also a good idea to keep it up high where goats and other hungry or inquisitive critters can't reach it.

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Travel: Bethanie enters ger at NaraBethanie enters a ger at Nara's winter camp along Onon river, near Norovlin, Khentii, Mongolia Travel: Solar power at NaraVoltaic solar panel to recharge camera batteries on ger, along Onon river, near Norovlin, Khentii, Mongolia

 


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