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Old 07-22-2007
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HS: Thanks very much for all the work you've done. I'm sure that while most of it was to satisfy your own needs and questions about this particular device, you've done a lot of people here a great service by posting your thoughts and your results.

My own situation allows me to simply put up a load of panels and wait for the sun to move overhead until I get full output. But your results in optimizing that output with MPPT and PWM devices is impressive, and not everyone has the space I do. I particularly think that a SolarStik Junior, as you put it, would allow 25-35 footers to use a single 50 or 130 W panel to great advantage in an anchorage situation, and would keep more people off shore power and/or running gensets to keep their beer cold.
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