solar charger for Canon battery

Does anyone know of a solar charger for the Canon 20D BP-511A
battery? Or some other wilderness/safari option for a trip of several
weeks without access to an AC source?

wrote in message
news
Does anyone know of a solar charger for the Canon 20D BP-511A
battery? Or some other wilderness/safari option for a trip of several
weeks without access to an AC source?

You could get the BG-E2 Battery Grip and take a lot of AA batteries with
you.

Tim

wrote in message
news
Does anyone know of a solar charger for the Canon 20D BP-511A
battery? Or some other wilderness/safari option for a trip of several
weeks without access to an AC source?

You could get the BG-E2 Battery Grip and take a lot of AA batteries with
you.

Tim

"Tim S." wrote in message news:%8YFd.524$ru.73@fed1read07...

wrote in message
news
Does anyone know of a solar charger for the Canon 20D BP-511A
battery? Or some other wilderness/safari option for a trip of several
weeks without access to an AC source?

You could get the BG-E2 Battery Grip and take a lot of AA batteries with
you.

Tim

True, if AA batteries actually worked in that contraption. Everybody I've
heard from has had poor to zero results using anything but high amperage
NiMH batteries. I certainly have. Alkalines need not apply...

--
Skip Middleton
http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:11:43 -0800, wrote:

Does anyone know of a solar charger for the Canon 20D BP-511A
battery? Or some other wilderness/safari option for a trip of several
weeks without access to an AC source?

maybe take a charger and a power inverter for use with vehicles?


Drifter
"I've been here, I've been there..."

Seconded - if you will be with vehicles, just pick up a low-wattage (eg
100 watt) power inverter which will give you a standard 110V (or 240V
depending on what you want) outlet - nowadays they are cheap and
compact. They do draw a reasonable amount from the battery though, so
you should generally only use them while the vehicle is running.

Otherwise, I'm sure Canon will sell you a suitable 12V charger... and
there are plenty of 12V solar cell array systems.

drs wrote:
Does anyone know of a solar charger for the Canon 20D BP-511A
battery? Or some other wilderness/safari option for a trip of several
weeks without access to an AC source?

Most solar chargers are impractical unless they will be at a fixed location.
There are alternative BP-511 chargers that will operate off 12VDC power (e.g.
vehicle battery). There are small, motorcycle batteries that might be
sufficient here, maybe something around 7-10 AH. Also, there are many solar
panels that will output 12VDC.

After studying all of this, you might be better off simply purchasing 6-8 cheap
BP-511 replacements.

---Bob Gross---

wrote in message
news
Does anyone know of a solar charger for the Canon 20D BP-511A
battery? Or some other wilderness/safari option for a trip of several
weeks without access to an AC source?

Did you try googling it? First entry is this solar charger set-up for that
battery. http://store.sundancesolar.com/sochforbpwir.html

wrote:
Does anyone know of a solar charger for the Canon 20D BP-511A
battery? Or some other wilderness/safari option for a trip of several
weeks without access to an AC source?

Get a Lenmar Mach 1 charger which will work off of 12V. Then buy a 12V
solar panel setup, with a female cigarette lighter socket. Maybe bring
along a 12V lead acid battery as a storage source which you could use
with the 12V charger. The Lenmar charger is $38. A 5W solar panel is
about $80 (350mA output), which would take about twelve hours of
sunlight to charge a BP511 (allowing for inefficiencies of charger). A
15 watt panel would be about $170, and it would take about four hours of
sunlight to charge it.

Don't use a power inverter and the regular AC charger.

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 06:11:21 GMT, "Steven M. Scharf"
---snip----
Don't use a power inverter and the regular AC charger.

Why not? I've done it dozens of times with no issues at all.


Drifter
"I've been here, I've been there..."