"Decent idea IH.

Our rechargables are powered now either off of ship mounted commercially built 12vt to Xvt DC systems. or the planned system below:

I have four of the large Harbor Freight 4x5' panels, waiting to have a rotating rack to be built to take advantage of the bright nearly year round sun we have here in desert. Have some planning to do to build a propeller system to drive the 120 amp GM alternator to charge and top off the marine deep cycles.

Seems that all of the "free energy" I can score adds up to a few more coins not given to the Man. Come the emergency and after, can see things like this "priceless".

Good line of thinking!

SnC"

"You can easily modify these to work without the photocell. You can either replace the photocell with a micro toggle switch from radio shack so you can still turn the light on or off like a mini flashlight, or if you are using it solely as a charger, just remove the photocell. The LED must be left in the circuit to allow it to properly charge.

I can do a write up on this if you'd like. "

"wanna add that to this page maybe as additional "mods" for this light?

that would be cool : )"