/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.209159]

hey /diy/

i'm looking to buy a setup to charge electronics (laptop is the primary goal) with solar. I'm more interested in a versatile setup which can be supplemented by other power sources, or hooked up to more batteries.
Not just some cheesy "roots" backpack which barely works my calculator.

Does anyone have experience, or ideas for this? I love the idea of being able to use it on a backpack but am open to other ideas and want to get creative, looking for ultimate portability with my laptop.

ideas on battery packs for it, what volatage/watts do i want?

tl;dr : solar packs? battery packs? ideas?

[Radiofag No.209165]

Solar panels are not durable enough to be exposed like that. Batteries are heavy.

[Danedran No.209171]

Actually sounds like and inovative idea email me sometimes i have some expeirience in that

[Anonymous No.209176]

i'm looking to make a nerds survival kit.

please help me out.

[Anonymous No.209181]

whats the best balance between output and portability?

if we were to pretend this was a terminator, doomsday hacker survival kit - what would you carry? fold out flexible solar pannel (we'll say the sun is still visible)

what about signal boosters for WIFI? do they make those cheap for laptops?

any innovative ideas for this, please!

[Anonymous No.209183]

http://www.voltaicsystems.com/
check out some stuff on there

[Anonymous No.209188]

>>209181
Forget signal boosters. Actually, forget your laptop's internal wifi all together. Alfa makes some very good usb adapters, with much higher output, and external antenna jacks. Buy one of the 1W models with the directional panel antenna. Avoid the 1.5 and 2 watt models, they don't work as well.
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[Anonymous No.209199]

Okay, so maybe this guy (open to suggestions)
http://www.amazon.com/Alfa-AWUS036H-Wireless-Long-Rang-Panel/dp/B003YI4HRM

would cover internet.

This guy (open to suggestions. fuck, that price..)
http://www.voltaicsystems.com/fuse10w.shtml

might do for power.

Do they make fucking hand cranks for charging the battery? (worst case senario?)

any other ideas? waterproofing, or something...

how do the communications guys in the army do it?

also - cost cutting ideas, please!

[Anonymous No.209204]

just looked at signal jammers from the army...

might be a nice touch. haha!

[Radiofag No.209207]

>>209188
Alfa AWUS036H
1w 802.11b/g

It even has an RP-SMA port on it.

Coupled with a yagi, it makes a nice portable wifi setup.

It runs off of USB...I warn you though, it eats power like crazy.

>http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200514346_200514346

I'd probably rock something like this for electricity.

I do want to get a portable HF transceiver setup going...

[Anonymous No.209217]

Wait!!
The 036 isn't windows 7 compatible, you want the 048.

[Anonymous No.209225]

>>209217
Well it turns out that my info is a little out of date. They fixed the '036 and discontinued the '048. Carry on sir.

[Anonymous No.209232]

okay, so i just found this and think it NEEDS to be included in the kit!

http://www.jammerspot.com/5-band-cigarette-case-3g-gsm-cdma-cell-phone-signal-blocker-red.html

do those "heads up display" sun glasses work yet?

[Radiofag No.209234]

>>209232
Why is it needed? It's not very effective and violates a lot of FCC laws.

[Anonymous No.209236]

>>209234


it's kind of turning into a james bond sort of hacker kit.

cigarette pack signal jammer!

[Anonymous No.209249]

How portable does it have to be?

They aren't something you'd carry in a backpack, but there are some pretty good generators with inverters. The inverter allows the engine to slow down when you are not drawing full power (unlike old-style generators that had to run at 3600RPM), so they don't make a lot of noise or use a lot of gas unless you draw full power.

[Anonymous No.209256]

>>209249

haha! no it's supposed to be more or less a "backpack" "electronic bug out bag" setup!