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Camping? Keep your batteries charged with Brunton’s Solarroll

September 13, 2007 by Tricia

I’m sure you realize by now that I love the great outdoors. I certainly talk about gardening, my love of canoeing and the various road trips that we go on often enough. I don’t however talk much about camping.

This is mainly because I haven’t actually been camping for a number of years. My husband is not really the camping type. He wouldn’t mind roughing it in a tent or trailer on the outside of town, but the idea of a trip deep into the woods isn’t his thing. I’ll get him camping at some point though or I’ll go with some friends as I miss the experience a great deal.

I do know that some of you that read this blog are avid outdoors men and women. Camping, hiking and so on, on your vacations and during the weekends.

Whether you are an adventurer who enjoys camping in the wilderness for two to four weeks at a time like our friend who goes to Labrador every year, or a weekend camper, I’ll bet that you find it hard to give up all of life’s modern conveniences while in the wilderness.

When you go camping or hiking do you bring a camera, video camera, radio, ipod or another type of multimedia player along with you? I actually know of one camper who brings a small television with her when she goes off on a trip with her luxury trailer! Perhaps you carry your cellphone or a satellite phone when you go camping just in case something happens?

Have the batteries ever run dry on any of these items when you’ve been camping? Perhaps leaving you in a dangerous position due to your sudden lack of ability to contact others? Maybe the vehicle you drove to your camping site battery died leaving you unable to start your car or truck?

If any of these things have happened to you in the past, or you don’t like the idea of them happening on future camping excursions, you should consider purchasing the Brunton Solarroll 9. It’s a flexible solar module that will allow you to run or keep the batteries charged for many of the items that I’ve mentioned above.

bruntonsolarroll.gif The Brunton Solarroll 9 is a 9 watt solar module that only weighs 10.6 ounces. When you consider how heavy batteries are, especially if you would need to bring several with you to keep various electrical items running, 10.6 ounces sounds pretty good doesn’t it? Especially if you’re backpacking! The 12″ by 40″ module rolls up and can easily be stored with your camping equipment in it’s convenient storage tube.

The solar module is waterproof, UV transparent and is extremely durable as it’s made with Tefzel Fluoropolymer. Not only has the Brunton Solarroll been made to withstand harsh conditions, but it’s composed of amorphous solar cells which are effective in low light conditions. Perfect if it ends up raining or if it’s very cloudy during your camping trip.

The solarroll includes a vehicle outlet cable and a multi-linking cable which can be used to link multiple units together for even greater output. It even has reverse flow protection.

The max output for a single unit is 9 watts (15.4 volts) making it ideal for either charging digital and video cameras or cell phone batteries or running them directly via the solar module.

This is actually Brunton’s most popular product, and as a result of it’s popularity and remarkable performance Brunton will be expanding their line of flexible solar modules this year to include alternative sizes and outputs.

Did you know that Ed Viesturs will be using the Brunton Solarroll 9 when he attempts to complete his Endeavor 8000 on his final summit, Annapurna next Spring? You certainly can’t get a better endorsement of a product than that! If this experienced mountaineer is assured of the Solarroll’s reliability then it must be a good product.

I know that the next time I’m going camping I’ll most likely have one or two of my digital cameras with me, our HD video camera, a cell phone, flashlights and some form of multimedia player. It would certainly be handy to have a solar charger with me. Heck, if I had a Brunton Solarroll I’d even take it out with me whenever I went on my photo expeditions and on road trips.

If you want to learn more about Bruntons Solarroll 9 or shop for great deals on Camping Equipment visit the FunDeals4U.com website. They have a great selection of tools, boating, electronics and outdoor products to chose from and they are all well priced.





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I love finding great coupon deals at the Deal Locker

August 27, 2007 by Tricia

Have I told you about deallocker.com yet? I came across the Deal Locker website a couple of weeks ago and I’ve quickly become a fan of this wonderful site.

Why? What’s so special about it? Well, you can find 1000’s of discounts and coupons for products and stores throughout North America and several other countries throughout the world.

I love this site. Not only can you save money by either using coupon codes or printable coupons that you find on the site at online stores, grocery stores, retail and department stores, but you can also sign up for a free membership and add coupons or coupon codes that you’ve found in order to share them with others.

You won’t find coupon listings on this site that have already expired either. The Deal Locker prides itself on having current listings.

There’s also another feature that I find very helpful. When you use a coupon on the site you can come back and rate it. By this I mean you can state whether the coupon worked properly for you or not. As you probably know there’s nothing worse than finding a great deal on the net and then discovering that the promo code that you used didn’t work.

When you search through the site for coupons for a particular item, category or store you results will come up under “recommended coupons”. Those are coupons that have been rated by site members. You’ll also see that there’s a tab at the top of your coupon results that says “All Coupons” where you can find brand new coupons, ones that have yet to be rated and a few that haven’t always worked well for others, but that might work for you.

As I said there’s literally thousands of listings and the site is easy to use. If you’re thinking about purchasing a new computer simply click on the category tab, find the listing for Computer Coupons and search through the results to find a coupon or discount code that suits your needs.

You can also click on the store tab and find a specific store to see if they have any deals on items that you might want to buy. For example, if you know that you’ll be visiting Walmart on the weekend why not do a quick search for Walmart Coupons to see if there are any printable coupons that you can use while in the store?

Honestly, I’m going to try to use this site whenever I know I’m going out to shop at a department store. Of course I might find some online coupon deals that I could use instead. I really don’t mind whether I purchase something online or otherwise, but I do care about saving money and I’m certain that if I check this site regularly I’ll easily find savings.

Visit deallocker.com yourself and see what deals you can find.

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I need ink cartridges again?

June 20, 2007 by Tricia

Honestly. How much ink to they put in ink cartridges these days? It must only be a couple of millimeters because I run out of ink so fast and I barely print anything.

Do you find that that happens with your printer too? Or have you found one that prints well but is fairly economical with it’s ink?

I know I just bought ink about two months ago. I’ve only printed a few things. How on earth could I be out of ink already. I think I’m going to purchase a big box of generic ink cartridges for my printer at an online store. That might be the only way I’ll be able to be sure I’ve always got ink when I need it.

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This is the smallest scanner I’ve ever seen

June 5, 2007 by Tricia

Do you remember how when scanners first started coming out they were quite large? I’ve still got my first scanner and while I don’t have it’s exact measurements handy it was almost two feet long by close to a foot wide. That’s huge compared to this new Duplex scanner that I just got a good look at.

The Duplex Scanner – Scanshell 3000DN is perhaps the smallest scanner that I’ve ever seen. It only weighs 17oz/475g which is just over a pound. I think it would be perfect for anyone who either has a small workspace, or for those who take their work on the road or travel for business regularly.

Not only is it small and therefore highly portable, it’s also a high-speed duplex scanner. It can simultaneously capture both sides of a document while scanning. It also offers high image quality capture.

The scanner uses a high speed USB 2.0 standard interface so no external power supply is necessary.

Honestly I can imagine people who’s work takes them out of the office frequently – realtors, contractors, sales agents and so on, using this new Scanshell scanner.

Check it out!

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The whirrrrrrring sound meant trouble

April 14, 2007 by Tricia

This morning my husband turned on my computer. He often does this if he’s up before me and he hears me moving around upstairs. My usual routine is to get up, get myself a coffee and sit at the desktop computer and check my email as I wake up.

My routine was severely altered this morning!

Chris turned my computer on and said “Oh oh …” and you know anything that starts with Oh oh is not going to be good. “your computers making a sound that I just know you’re not going to like” he said. I called downstairs “What do you mean? I can’t hear it from here. What is it doing?”

He didn’t really say, he just kept telling me that I wasn’t going to be happy with the noise. Then he said I think it’s the fan.

As I came down the stairs I could hear the noise. It was a high pitched whirrrrrring noise. He was right. I didn’t like that sound at all.

Chris took the side panel off the computer and figured that it was the fan on the power supply that was making the noise.

Ok, that’s not too bad. We’ll take the computer to Best Buy or Future Shop and get a new power supply for it. We had to replace a power supply for our old computer a few years ago after a power failure zapped it. It had been easy to find the right replacement and the computer was only down for a few hours. No problem.

Chris went off with the computer and I got on the laptop to check my email.

Chris came back a couple of hours later. Much later than I thought he’d be. It turns out that the power supply in our 2003 HP Media center computer is a very special one, much smaller than most and only made by one company that supplies HP directly. Arghhh.

We got on the laptop and started to see if we could find HP parts dealers in the Toronto area, or if the HP parts store carried the power supply that we needed. HP telephone support is only open Monday to Friday so we couldn’t talk with anyone and I couldn’t find the model number on their power supply parts page. None of the computer supply stores we called could get the part either.

What a drag! Chris also told me that one of the people he talked with at Best Buy or Future shop had said the power supply would cost about $140 bucks. Much more expensive than the last power supply that we had to buy for our old old computer. I started to think, gee we could get a whole new computer for about $500 at the most. What should we do?

We decided to check for the part on eBay and we got lucky and found it. So now I’ve made my first ever eBay purchase ($36 with shipping!) and I hope that the part we got really is the correct one. It’s got the right part number but the photo’s looked a little different than what our own power supply looks like. I guess we’ll see in about a week when it arrives.

So I guess I’ll be using only my laptop for the next week or so. It’s unfortunately that all my saved emails are on my desktop, and all the info about money I’ve been making and so on. I guess we could plug in the faulty computer and move some of that info to this computer. The desktop still works but we’re pretty sure that that sound means failure is imminent. Plus, if the fan isn’t working properly the computer could over heat and get damaged. That would be much worse than not having access to some of my stored info for a few days, so I think we’ll just leave it turned off for now.

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