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  • Rural Solar Panels

    Rural Solar Panels

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSunak and Solar Detached from reality’: anger as Rishi Sunak plans to restrict solar panels. Rishi Sunak plans to restrict the installation of solar panels on swathes of English farmland, which climate campaigners say will raise bills and put the UK’s energy security at risk. Solar Powered Shade Solar panels, if placed…

  • Charging A Garmin Instinct With an External Solar Panel

    Charging A Garmin Instinct With an External Solar Panel

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday, out of curiousity I experimented. I charged both the Garmin Instinct Solar and the Garmin 45s with a solar panel. The first thing I noticed is that they were using 0.1 amps to charge, rather than 1, 2 or more amps of power. Until this experiment I had never considered…