[C320-list] solar panel

[Jane & Ken]

Pat,
   I ordered my new 320 hull #219 with the optional solar panel---it has worked fine over the last 14 years until lately when it has bulged up nearly 5 inches---still works, but it looks as if it is about 14 months pregnant  (perhaps I will have a 6 volt panel as an addition).
   When (and it will happen) the panel stops working I will be interested in the new products .  Ken

--- On Wed, 12/17/08, Pat Moriarty <patm at psiurethanes.com> wrote:

From: Pat Moriarty <patm at psiurethanes.com>
Subject: Re: [C320-list] solar panel
To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 3:43 PM

Side bar to this topic. I have/had a solar panel that came from 
Catalina and is mounted in front of the hatch in a depression with a 
trim ring. Does anyone else have this or does anyone know of this on 
another 320?

Pat #130


At 03:32 PM 12/17/2008, you wrote:
>On the solar panel topic, there is, apparently, thin film solar
"paper" in
>the works. Check-out nanosolar.com. They have a process that allows the
>"printing" of a thin film "ink" on a wafer substrate
that is quite flexible.
>I wonder if this would work as a sail cover: throw it on, secure it, plug
it
>in and you're in business; or, a layer on the top of a bimini that can
be
>folded up. Interesting.
>
>"Based on our cell and product design innovations, Nanosolar is
capable of
>delivering high-power solar panels with 5-10 times higher current than
other
>thin-film solar panels on the market today."
>
>Don't get your hopes up too soon. They say all their production for the
next
>12 months is taken. Better products through technology. (Who said that?)
>
>Warren & Pattie Updike
>Catalina 320, #62, "Warr De Mar"
>Middle River, Chesapeake Bay

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