Those fluorescent tube kits seems a bit dopey to me for this, not efficient enough.

On the cheap you could use this – the second one the Solar NiCd charger as a starting point for the power capture/storage. Mount them RIGHT under a skylight.

I have 2, they’ve lasted 3 years and I’ve currently hacked the 2 panels into a USB charger. There’s a small socket on the side, pop a wire into that. Add a switch, and some batteries [decent quality C-cells will fit] and then head over to

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/forum.php?

To find a simple “Buck” [voltage dropping] regulator.

I’d try it with a pair of 1W 4000k [natural white colour] LED’s. They will need a heatsink about the size of a matchbox each, maybe less.

I reckon the whole lot will cost you less than the £50 for the cheapest kit you linked to, let you learn more and you get a pair of great portable solar battery chargers you can unhook and use camping/touring [As I did, all the gear I took on my trip used AA or AAA batteries and they were kept topped by sitting these chargers on the top of the panniers :) ]

Graham, Junkyard has been resurrected, but I reckon he’s under plenty of scrutiny, so unless he’s pulling some quite advanced maneuvers he’s unlikely to have more than one account.

As a fellow poor spellar and [] user I think you should look for more interesting things to say about him. What you typed is the equivalent of “Naaah he’s got ginger hair and scruffy jeans – he’s a ****”, not a very grown-up thiing to say really.

Besides [] doesn’t require shift. Why should we type ()? It is only a collection of dimmed pixels, you still get the message.

And unless I’ve got the guy waaaaay wrong, he’s not going to bother typing 2 sets of posts just to look cool on St.Whirl.For.

Phuket – Imma gonna go post some lighthearted twaddle, after I’ve cleaned the kitchen. Laters, haters.

Tiff and Vicki can really drive too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIT_manufacturing

It wasn’t just that we fracked-up, it was also that Toyota etc had some serious quality ideas….

You’re a bumder? ;)

OIC

I’ll stop trying to sound cleverer that I is. ;)

rogerthecat – That’s unmade my day. Balls

I think it’s all snuffed-it by the time you drink.

I might be wrong.

I think we need a Quake server or something for you lot to bitch-slap it out.

Does DUI not apply to other intoxicants then?

yeah, right…. pffft

EDIT: I hate to burst your bubbles [or indeed, hers] but 99% that is some trickery like an inflatable bra/insert/chickenfillets. I mean, don’t you lot ever get dragged round the shops with the Mrs [considering where this discussion has headed from it’s starting point, perhaps not] but most of these doofus air-heads are riddled with fakery – horrible fake tan, high-heeled shoes in disguise, 20mm thick bras and vacuum-forming leggings.

They’ve traded it in for their brainz, in Primark.

I wonder what the BT IP sharing does to the forum Control Panel….

;) OK

My friend emails me from a Galaxy and I often get failed smilies showing up as J like your post but only from him. So I took a guess in the hope of looking l33t or something, heh. Gotta try man, gotta try.

Which reminds me…

ATH+++

I often use your other account camo16 ;)

Or should I say *******

EDIT: Hey why won’t it let me post the username ******* ?!

Cougar – you posting from a Samsung phone?

Oh this is getting interesting.

wut

I can see where this thread is going.

“Gas Pipe”?! This must be a dig at someone’s Steel Is Real bike?

It’s possible I might have smoked out of a pair of handlebars.

That was Fred? Srs surgery?

You lot are always making work for me…..

This work for you kimbers?

My pants are dried exclusively on bikes. It’s a matter of pride.

Quite memorable. Follows Buzan’s memorable principles, I like a lot.

One of these days someone will die after posting a thread like this and the joke will finally go “off”.

I suggest you start a thread about it, keep us all informed.

I’m sure it’s been said – but last time I watched Top Gear there was a serious lack of actual car reviews/discussion.

What do I know – we own a Twingo Freeway*!

*In which it is very dangerous to speed as it may very well explode in fire**.

**No wait – that was the Dyane

I agree – and am amazed by the loons that hoon betwixt speedbumps and then jump on the anchors – how do they afford it??!

Zokes – you are, of course, right that going too slow on the motorway is dangerous. However I was referring to “speeding” – ie breaking the speed limit.

WRT fuel economy – see the previous equation [the drag equation] I posted. See the v^2 – that bad.

Here’s a crappy graph that shows the gist of the effect .

This is the same reason you can bike at 10MPh on the flat easily, 20 is still pretty easy, but 30 is NOT as hard again as from 10 to 20. Also the reason the Veyron needs 1000HP to hit 240 or whatever, but an MX5 can hit half of that with 110HP

Drag – it’s a real drag.

The smoothly/faster tradeoff is much more complex and I have no idea how you’d calculate it.

EDIT: 100MPh on an empty motorway may be as “safe” as 70 on a fuller one. But your reaction times will still do you less favours if something goes wrong, and there’s that V^2 again in

so if you stack there’s a lot more energy to dissipate.

I guess I’d just like it if we all chilled out a bit with the cars, save the gofasterstripes for the racetrack [see what I did there ;) ]

I don’t doubt that most of you [inc Zokes] are comparitively safe drivers. Take care all.

Cheers
Sammy F

You’re in denial I see.

Please feel free to provide any contradictory information for any of those facts.

Why do you speed, any of you?

It’s more dangerous to drive faster.
It’s illegal – you may get banned/fined/imprisoned.
It’s very bad for the fuel economy.

Are you all on call or something?

This?

Plugging the Nokia into a Win 7 PC often crashes Windows Explorer too. Where is my update dammit!?

I think there’s a tie-in possibility for the world’s most powerful sex toy in that colour scheme. Probably less pointy though :)

Sorry I don’t know right now.

Can I suggest you also factor in where the materials used to make the phones come from. There’s a few companies which are not making any effort at all to prevent children used as slaves for the production of the materials, and the raw materials coming from conflict zones such as the DRC.

Have a look.

EDIT: If it’s short term, then why not get a secondhand one?

Trade on tubes used to be circa £1

Is it a steel framed one or ally? What’s the service interval?

I always thought 4-paw drive was for wusses – turn it off and get more skids.

wow.

I wonder if they can do signed copies of my monthly placement logbook. My reports have been sitting on my supervisor’s desk for about 6 weeks and he’s not bothered to sign them and give them back so I can send them in…

Bromley eh? Used to live there. I wonder if anyone I know knows her. Hmmm.

Woah woah woah…. I can heat my house WITH BEER?!