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Fuse 10W on cover of Home Power Magazine
The good folks over at Home Power Magazine recently ran a story on solar chargers and they chose the Fuse 10W Solar Laptop Charger for the cover photo. Photo credit to Shawn Schreiner. Get the current issue of Home Power …
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Generator in Malawi and Sri Lanka
Empower Projects is a Sydney-based non-profit that helps entrepreneurs to build self-reliant communities. Their founder, Shanil Samarakoon, brought a Voltaic Generator along with him on his site visits to charge his ASUS N53J, iPhone and digital cameras. We suggest you …
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Generator in Madagascar
A Peace Corps Volunteer brought a Voltaic Generator Solar Laptop Charger to Madagascar a few years ago and has been using it ever since to keep her electronics charged. We do provide discounts to Peace Corps Volunteers to help them …
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October Gear Winner Heads to the Galapogos
Our October winner needs to charge a MacBook Pro 15″, Nikon D90 and a Sony SDR-SR12 video camcorder while on a photography expedition. We hooked up Tzeitel Sorrosa with a Fuse 10W Solar Laptop charger plus a reconfigured MagSafe for …
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September Gear Winner Update
Chris Baker from One Seed Expeditions sent us back these great photos from their company training session in Nepal. We gave Chris a V60 laptop battery to go with his 15 Watt solar panel and charge his MacBook. If you …
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New Video and FAQ on Solar Chargers for Cameras
We’ve updated our inventory of camera cradles so that we can solar charge the batteries of nearly all popular digital cameras. Go here for our updated tutorial, video and FAQ for our solar camera chargers. If you just want to …
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EEWeb Interview with Phil Stearns and Jeff Crystal
EEWeb recently interviewed a few of us here at Voltaic. You can read the full interview here to learn more about what we’re working on, what keeps us up at night and our favorite hardware tools. The picture for the …
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September Gear Winner – OneSeed Expeditions
Congratulations to Chris Baker of OneSeed Expeditions. We gave Chris a V60 laptop battery to go with his 15 Watt solar panel. Chris will be solar charging a 13″ MacBook in Nepal as part of a staff training session (this …
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Voltaic in the Gobi Desert
A Korean couple biked across the Gobi Desert in Mongolia and used the Voltaic Fuse Solar Charger to charge their own phones plus those of locals along the way. Here are several pictures from their trip. Thanks to our partner …
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Making MagSafes Again…
As we prep to get our solar MacBook chargers back in stock, we got together in our Brooklyn conference room to make some MagSafe adapters. They are not works of art, but they are functional. We splice used MagSafe adapters …
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