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<div dir="ltr">Also, for the nerds in the group. This pic may
document the most overdue purchase of one of those ever:
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<p>Is that a broccoli corsage on your coat? And why do you look
like <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cnet.com/news/luke-skywalker-finally-makes-it-to-tosche-station-or-at-least-mark-hamill-does/">Mark
Hamill?</a> <br>
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<p>I 'lived' off of one of those for a month in Italy w/o ever
buying a mains converter... I was in the rental car every day for
one reason or another, if only to charge up my laptop, camera
batteries, phone. 12V is the same in Metric as in Imperial, who
knew? I left mine as a gift to one of my airBnB hosts, they had
never seen one, and had enough 'murrican visitors to recognize the
potential for them. I did cheat, however, by buying a Euro cord
for my MacBook charger which made IT into it's own universal power
station as well.</p>
<p>The only thing more important than a power converter for inter<strike>national</strike>stellar
traveling would be <a
href="https://www.360onhistory.com/history/dont-panic-always-carry-towel/">a
towel</a>?</p>
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<p>and THIS is what happens when you (I) try to build your (my)
own</p>
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<p align="center"><img src="cid:part3.A7CB029A.335D9322@swcp.com"
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<p align="center">and YES my workbench is as gratuitously layered
and complex (aka cluttered) as my <strike>posts</strike>mind.</p>
<p><TVSDR><br>
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<p>FWIW, this project *also* adds functions like solar charging of
the ad-hoc battery pack (yellow) from my (now retired) hybrid
car, provides PWM speed-controls for pumps, LED light timers for
a mini-aquaponic system and exhaust boost for my rocket mass
stove and air circulation between sunroom and house. In a pinch
it can be used to jump-start my diesel truck and keep my
laptop/wifi/ISP online in a power outage. Linked to my Chevy
Volt (16KWh) I estimate I could run for a month without any sun
(nuclear winter-ready?). It isn't EMP proof, though I do have
a huge roll of copper mesh from the Black Hole (thank you Ed
Grothus), waiting to become a Faraday cage (that will also keep
out flies).</p>
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<p>Henry David Thoreau would not approve, but then he *did* expect
his mom to feed him while he was pretending his "rustic life" on
Walden Pond.</p>
<p>Ramble, <br>
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<p> - Steve<br>
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