I reckon it would take quite a lot of gas or other fuel to charge your phone or other device.

VKPORTABLE wrote:

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First up, no offence to Peter I've seen lot's of others do this to when adding a link.
When adding a link it's nice to use the drop down box and set target as 'New Window', that way clicking on the link doesn't take you away from the forums. Like this :)
For those interested the html code would be this: <a href="http://www.thegreynomads.com.au" target="new window">Like This :)</a>

Now back to business...
Looks okay, 5V @ 1A is pretty beefy and plenty enough to charge mobile phones and the likes, even compact cameras that are rechargeable.
It would be interesting to know how hot it has to get before it generates the rated 1 Amperes.

Do you know how much it costs?
If it costs more then say $60 you might be best off buying a small 20 Watt solar panel that comes complete with regulator, such as those sold at SuperCheap Auto - I have one of these. Not only will it charge the phone, my scanner batteries - it also will charge the vehicle battery. I can confirm it takes approximately three days to charge a battery from dead flat to a point where it will start the vehicle, an extra few days camping wasn't such a problem. Whenever I stop at camp I always connect the solar panel, I purchased a cigarette lighter extension lead, one end is a female plug (like what's in your car) to alligator clips which I connect direct to the battery.

I also use another smaller (fold out model from Jaycar) solar panel to charge 7AH SLA batteries, I can't remember the exact wattage of this panel, but it I think it is 10W or less. Plenty enough to charge the SLA over the course of a day. I also have an external regulator rigged up to this to ensure the voltage doesn't go high.

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 With respect Stewart, Peter has it right,, it so simple to add the link and access it.

Just right click Peter's link and click open in anew window, you stay on the forum and open in another window,,, best of both worlds.

Cheers Baz

Baz421 wrote:

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 With respect Stewart, Peter has it right,, it so simple to add the link and access it.

Just right click Peter's link and click open in anew window, you stay on the forum and open in another window,,, best of both worlds.

Cheers Baz

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True, although if when adding a link in the box that appears (where you place the address) click on 'Target'  and select 'New window' the viewer does not need to right click as you say as it will automatically open in the new tab in your browser. The standard with almost all websites these days is to have links open in a new window (tab) so as not to take the viewer away from the main site.

It was simply a suggestion, different people like different things - I prefer to be able to click a link and have it open a new tab rather then take me from where I began to somewhere new.

Thermocouple two metals when heated give off electricity ..
www.msm.cam.ac.uk/utc/thermocouple/pages/ThermocouplesOperatingPrinciples.html