[C320-list] solar panel

[Pat Moriarty]

There is a hole on the starboard side of the well and they disappear 
after that because I never took the hatch cover off. I know they came 
out at the starboard battery locker so I just took them off the 
battery and taped them up.


At 10:32 AM 12/18/2008, you wrote:
>Pat,
>
>Do you know how the wires ran from your panel when it was there to 
>the controller and on to the batteries?
>
>
>__
>Kurt Budelmann
>Everwind, Catalina 320, #1035
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Moriarty" <patm at psiurethanes.com>
>To: <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
>Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 11:17 AM
>Subject: Re: [C320-list] solar panel
>
>
>>1994 model and the Texas sun mine was toast and now all I have is 
>>an ugly hole. #139 was on my lake and it did not have a solar panel 
>>so they were not standard.
>>
>>Pat #130
>>
>>At 04:14 PM 12/17/2008, you wrote:
>>>Hi Pat,
>>>
>>>The solar panel in front of the traveler is in place on hull 326.  I  had
>>>thought they were standard on the earlier models, but perhaps not.  I don't
>>>think they're too efficient (not mine, anyway).  That thin, new  model from
>>>Nanosolar described below sounds interesting....
>>>
>>>
>>>In a message dated 12/17/2008 3:43:42 P.M. Central Standard Time,
>>>patm at psiurethanes.com writes:
>>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>Pat Moriarty
>>>PSI Urethanes Inc
>>>PH: 800-888-5156  Fax:  512-837-8733
>>>Please visit our web site  at
>>>www.psiurethanes.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>Pat Moriarty
>>PSI Urethanes Inc
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>>
>

Pat Moriarty
PSI Urethanes Inc
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