April 19th, 2010 by Flexopower
Submitted by Abel Pienaar from Pretoria:
We have used the Flexopower P3-30 watt solar panel on a 10 day Orange River expedition from Vioolsdrift to Sendelingsdrif and it was AWESOME!
We were 7 guys in kayaks finding our way through several rapids, walks into the Richtersveld mountains with lots of sand flies, midgets, scorpions and mosquitoes keeping us busy through the beautiful 180km river passage way. It was an unbelievable experience where we not once had trouble to power our video and camera equipment to capture the experience thanks to our solar panel. We also charged our GPS’s and sat phone from the battery which we had in a waterproof sack in my kayak linked to the solar panel neatly on the back part of the kayak behind my back (we really could have run a lot more stuff of the battery if we had more space in the kayaks for equipment…. (-; ). The panel got submerged and wet several times going through rapids and rocks with no problem charging at full strength from the belting Richtersveld sun!
This is by far the most durable solar panel I have ever seen!
Abel Pienaar, Pretoria
Tags: camera, deep cycle battery, Flexopower, GPS, kayak, mobile solar, Orange river, P3-30, satellite phone
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October 9th, 2009 by Flexopower
South African Search and Rescue (SASAR) 6 day combined exercise gets off the ground end of October 2009.
Flexopowers latest product development, the FLXP Desert series, will be used and tested during the exercise.
The Flexopower Desert series is a modular portable solar system supporting rapid deployment and remote locations with quick solar electric power up to 3 kWp.
Flexopower is excited to further test its new development during the combined exercise of SASAR and is confident it will make a big contribution.
Tags: portable solar system, SASAR, South African Search and Rescue
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August 14th, 2009 by Flexopower
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
RTO Mission Accomplished
At 15h20 local time on Wednesday 8 July 2009 Riaan Manser crossed the finish line in Tamatave, 5000km and eleven months after setting off to become the first person to circumnavigate Masdagascar by kayak, alone and unaided.
Tags: Flexopower, kayak, madagascar, Riaan Manser
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May 25th, 2009 by Flexopower
Upper Lhotse face
May at 7.15am local time:
I (John) climbed to the top of the world and summitted Mt Everest at 8850m. I promise to post a full story soon, but I just got back to BC safely a few hours ago after a torturous descent.
I am well and have all my fingers and toes intact. I am tired, stiff, sore, dehydrated, hungry and sleepy.
Every fibre of my body is fatigued and painful, but my mind is dancing.
May at 9.40am local time:
Hi all, breaking news, Robby climbed the highest mountain in the world, and is now on his way back to camp 4.
May:
Just to let everyone know that Robby is now safely back in BC, exhausted but elated. He has done exceptionally well.
It is now snowing heavily in BC and everything is under thick snow.
Robby on the Summit
John on the Summit
Tags: John Black, Mount Eeverest, Robby Kojetin
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May 19th, 2009 by Flexopower
Portable Solar Goes Around Madagascar
UPDATE:
Riaan has successfully rounded Cap St Marie, Madagascar’s most southerly point.
That means he’s done East, North, West and South.
He will shortly reach the 3/4 mark and then turn almost due north for the final push to the finish line.
See the full story in our March 2009 archive.
Tags: kayak, madagascar, Riaan Manser, SolarPouch
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