Last night I got home to find my solar panel in place :)

The battery was not charged well though. It was dark and rainy all day, no sun. So the battery was only at 12.45 Volts. I used my floor lamp with the 50 Watt light for almost 3 hours last night on my little battery with no problem. Just before I shut if off for the night I measured the battery - under load - at 11.24 Volts. Not too bad considering that it was not fully charged to start with.

Later, when I get things all set up, I will start using two lamps at a time on the one battery. If that works, then success is just around the corner.

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2. Customize Ringtone Duration

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3. Add Fade-In and Fade-Out Effects

This iPhone ringtone creator allows you to add fade-in and fade-out effects to your iPhone ringtone for personalization.

Concise and Multilingual Interface

1. Built-in Music Player

Preview your edited ringtone before converting or transferring it to your iPhone.

2. More Convenience

Drag and drop to add files for making iPhone ringtones; name the outputted ringtone freely; adjust the ringtone volume freely.

3. Snappy & Multilingual Interface

Navigate easily and switch between interfaces in English, German, French, Japanese and Chinese.

Xilisoft iPhone Ringtone Maker , powerful and easy operation software of iphone ringtones maker,allow any iphone user to customize their favour music become iphone ringtone,which clips a segment of an audio or video file and sets it as your ringtone, or adds fade-in and fade-out effects to iPhone ringtone.

Also,you can customize a lot of ringtone features to fancy up your ringtone as you want.Now let me tell you more about Xilisoft iPhone Ringtone Maker.

Make iPhone Ringtone from Any Video and Music

1. Convert Music Files Such as MP3 to iPhone Format

Xilisoft iPhone Ringtone Maker supports a wide range of music formats like MP3, WMA, WAV, and M4A.

2. Extract Music from Videos

You can even extract audio from videos such as movie clips, music video, TV show segment and set it as your ringtone. Many video formats are supported: AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, MP4, H.264/AVC, AVCHD, MKV, RM, MOV, XviD, and 3GP.

Transfer and Customize iPhone Ringtones

1. Transfer Ringtones to iPhone directly

After conversion, Xilisoft iPhone Ringtone Maker can transfer the converted tune directly to your iPhone without iTunes!

2. Customize Ringtone Duration

Snip your favorite music's chorus or a certain segment of an audio file and set it as your iPhone ringtone. Now you can set the time to millisecond and create ringtones more precisely!

3. Add Fade-In and Fade-Out Effects

This iPhone ringtone creator allows you to add fade-in and fade-out effects to your iPhone ringtone for personalization.

Concise and Multilingual Interface

1. Built-in Music Player

Preview your edited ringtone before converting or transferring it to your iPhone.

2. More Convenience

Drag and drop to add files for making iPhone ringtones; name the outputted ringtone freely; adjust the ringtone volume freely.

3. Snappy & Multilingual Interface

Navigate easily and switch between interfaces in English, German, French, Japanese and Chinese.

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Transfer files so fast, it is beyond your imagination. Save time and energy with this iPod ripper and enjoy your movies and music the quicker way!

Xilisoft iPhone Ringtone Maker  ,  powerful and easy operation software of iphone ringtones maker,allow any iphone user to customize their favour music become iphone ringtone,which clips a segment of an audio or video file and sets it as your ringtone, or adds fade-in and fade-out effects to iPhone ringtone.

Also,you can customize a lot of ringtone features to fancy up your ringtone as you want.Now let me tell you more about Xilisoft iPhone Ringtone Maker.

Make iPhone Ringtone from Any Video and Music

1. Convert Music Files Such as MP3 to iPhone Format

Xilisoft iPhone Ringtone Maker supports a wide range of music formats like MP3, WMA, WAV, and M4A.

2. Extract Music from Videos

You can even extract audio from videos such as movie clips, music video, TV show segment and set it as your ringtone. Many video formats are supported: AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, MP4, H.264/AVC, AVCHD, MKV, RM, MOV, XviD, and 3GP.

Transfer and Customize iPhone Ringtones

1. Transfer Ringtones to iPhone directly

After conversion, Xilisoft iPhone Ringtone Maker can transfer the converted tune directly to your iPhone without iTunes!

2. Customize Ringtone Duration

Snip your favorite music's chorus or a certain segment of an audio file and set it as your iPhone ringtone. Now you can set the time to millisecond and create ringtones more precisely!

3. Add Fade-In and Fade-Out Effects

This iPhone ringtone creator allows you to add fade-in and fade-out effects to your iPhone ringtone for personalization.

Concise and Multilingual Interface

1. Built-in Music Player

Preview your edited ringtone before converting or transferring it to your iPhone.

2. More Convenience

Drag and drop to add files for making iPhone ringtones; name the outputted ringtone freely; adjust the ringtone volume freely.

3. Snappy & Multilingual Interface

Navigate easily and switch between interfaces in English, German, French, Japanese and Chinese.

Xilisoft iPod Magic , powerful ipod media transferring software,allows you to rip and copy music, videos, and photos from iPod to PC, copy files from iPod to iTunes, as well as transfer any files from PC to iPod.

Besides,you can even convert non-iPod format files (DVD, audio, video and others) then transferring them straight to your iPod. File transferring between iPhone and PC is also supported.

File Copy between iPod and PC

Transfer iPod to PC, Rip iPod Files to iTunes

Copy and backup your iPod music, movies, music videos, and pictures to PC and share with friends; transfer and backup files from iPod and iPhone to iTunes (iTunes 8.2 to iTunes 9.2).

PC to iPod File Copy

Copy music, movies, music videos, and pictures from PC to iPod.

Transfer Files Between Several iPods and iPhone

Wanna share your iPod music with friends? Or copy music and videos between iPods and iPhone? Just connect them up and transfer files among them by a simple means of drag-and-drop! Up to 26 iPods and 1 iPhone are supported at the same time.

Transfer Files to Multiple Devices Simultaneously

Select as many connected iPods and iPhone as you want, and transfer a batch of files to them in one go.

Transfer DVD/Video/Audio to iPod

Convert and Transfer Videos/Audios to iPod

Besides transferring iPod/iPhone compatible files, this iPod manager software can also transfer other video/audio files such as M2TS, MTS, AVI, MPEG, WMV, DAT, TS, MPV, NSV, MOV, QT, H261, H264, WMA, AAC, AIF, AIFF, AC3 and so on to iPod/iPhone directly.

Rip and Transfer DVD to iPod

Transfer any DVD movie to iPod/iPhone by first converting it to iPod format.

Profile Customization

Choose from a list of available video/audio profiles for conversion or customize them to create your own profiles.

Easily manage iPod/iPhone files, edit ID3 info, transfer files between iPod and PC fast

Edit ID3 Tag Info

Name, artist, year, album and other ID3 tag info can all be edited with iPod Magic. You can even edit the ID3 info for several files at once.

Easily Manage iPod/iPhone Files Like iTunes

Create, edit, and delete iPod/iPhone playlists with ease; find what you want quickly using filter or quick search function to browse your library by genre, artist, and album; check your music, movies or photos in thumbnail or list view mode and add illustration for videos and music in thumbnail view mode.

Play iPod Files With the Built-In Player

Play iPod/iPhone videos/music and DVD movies with the resizable built-in player.

Easy to Use

This iPod ripper may be the easiest way to help you copy and backup iPod files to PC, transfer files between iPod/iPhone, PC and iTunes.

Ultra-Fast File Transfer

Transfer files so fast, it is beyond your imagination. Save time and energy with this iPod ripper and enjoy your movies and music the quicker way!

Xilisoft iPhone Ringtone Maker , powerful and easy operation software of iphone ringtones maker,allow any iphone user to customize their favour music become iphone ringtone,which clips a segment of an audio or video file and sets it as your ringtone, or adds fade-in and fade-out effects to iPhone ringtone.

Also,you can customize a lot of ringtone features to fancy up your ringtone as you want.Now let me tell you more about Xilisoft iPhone Ringtone Maker.

Make iPhone Ringtone from Any Video and Music

1.  Convert Music Files Such as MP3 to iPhone Format

Xilisoft iPhone Ringtone Maker supports a wide range of music formats like MP3, WMA, WAV, and M4A.

2.  Extract Music from Videos

You can even extract audio from videos such as movie clips, music video, TV show segment and set it as your ringtone. Many video formats are supported: AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, MP4, H.264/AVC, AVCHD, MKV, RM, MOV, XviD, and 3GP.

Transfer and Customize iPhone Ringtones

1.  Transfer Ringtones to iPhone directly

After conversion, Xilisoft iPhone Ringtone Maker can transfer the converted tune directly to your iPhone without iTunes!

2.  Customize Ringtone Duration

Snip your favorite music's chorus or a certain segment of an audio file and set it as your iPhone ringtone. Now you can set the time to millisecond and create ringtones more precisely!

3.  Add Fade-In and Fade-Out Effects

This iPhone ringtone creator allows you to add fade-in and fade-out effects to your iPhone ringtone for personalization.

Concise and Multilingual Interface

1.  Built-in Music Player

Preview your edited ringtone before converting or transferring it to your iPhone.

2.  More Convenience

Drag and drop to add files for making iPhone ringtones; name the outputted ringtone freely; adjust the ringtone volume freely.

3.  Snappy & Multilingual Interface

Navigate easily and switch between interfaces in English, German, French, Japanese and Chinese.

I finally got all the materials together for my solar panel. Plexiglas at Home Depot was the most expensive single part, at $12 for a plate. I needed two of them. Also got some wood trim at only 98 cents a piece to use for the framing of the panel.

Plywood at Home Depot, precut is only about $5 each. I need two of everything because my panel will be too large otherwise. I will make two identical panels, each putting out 9 Volts.

In the above pictures, I got all my tools ready and started soldering - finally. I had to use a weight to hold the solar cell in place and another weight to hold the tabbing wire down while I soldered it into place.

Hopefully I will have this project finished soon.

I finally got some time on my hands and started soldering my new solar panels myself. I laid them out on a table to find the best configuration for the cells. I will have to make two panels, each with 18 cells in order to make up the correct voltage and wattage. I will take pictures later and upload them.

Anyway, I cut the wood and started soldering the tabs on the cells. Then I started to solder the cells together in series to add up the voltage. They are each 0.5 volts. 36 cells will make up 18 volts, which is the correct voltage for a solar panel to charge 12 volt lead acid batteries. I am making two panels of 18 cells instead of one large one so that they wont be too large. Each panel will be about 18 inches by 22 inches.

More details and pictures later.

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