The Gadget Blog Day of month: Solar Chargers Until recently, archaeological excavations were something else. In urban areas, worked as a kind of bubble in the middle of the bustle, traffic and trying to evade the prying eyes of the elderly and the casual observer. In excavations in the field, the sense of isolation was more pronounced, far from the nuclei urban and often cumbersome or expensive access. This required the coexistence and helped to give a special flair to our work.
Then came the revolution. The excavation has been flooded in recent years a number of electronic devices that have changed quite radically the landscape. First with the mobile, with near-global coverage. Then digital cameras, handheld computers, surveying equipment, GPS, etc. We can say that we sailed towards the concept of excavation connected, almost on-line.
What has not changed, however, is that where we do not usually have outlets where you load all these bugs, so you need to plan well use batteries. And yet the bloody Murphy is relentless: the battery runs out at the wrong time. The solution: solar battery chargers.
They are of different types, sizes and power. Small allow charging your mobile, mp3, pda, and even rechargeable batteries. Are the size of a compact camera or a little more, so they are manageable and easy to transport. And then there are larger, they can charge car batteries, laptops or any other equivalent voltage gossip. I've seen on ebay some of the greats who are presented as a case that when opened displays the panels, which also appears feasible to incorporate them into our teams excavation. And I also curious to see (do not ask me where) portable solar refrigerators, which more than one will seem most useful. Is it the end of warm beer?
In short, open your knapsack of archaeologists and meted at least a solar charger for mobile. Someday agradeceréis me.
