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Solar PV (maybe with wind too) in London, UK | 12 comments (12 topical, editorial)
Re: Solar PV (maybe with wind too) in London, UK (3.00 / 0) (#12)
by DamonHD (d@hd.org) on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 02:46:58 PM MST
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Hi,

Laptop is up and running and was briefly powered from the solar-charged battery this evening and was drawing ~21W from the battery running something near a real load (ie not completely idle), which is very respectable I think.  (My aim is to get to 20W or below unless there's lots of extra power available.)

I have an Ubuntu "Feity Fawn" release with laptop-mode and cpufreqd, with the kernel upgraded to the latest-available Gutsy version, which gets me the tickless clock and a few other power-saving features.

I'm keeping an eye on what might be wasting power with PowerTop.

(I'm not posting a link since my ISP managed to drop my DSL connection today, and it'll be tomorrow before it's fixed.)

Rgds

Damon

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Solar PV (maybe with wind too) in London, UK | 12 comments (12 topical, 0 editorial)

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