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I emailed Bill at pvmasters dot com for information about purchasing some of the 5w PV panels (I only |
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want 2...) but I never got a reply. The email didn't bounce, so I assume it was delivered. Any suggestions? |
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email me off list npkeith at gmail dot com |
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THE WEBSITE IS NOT IN ENGLISH. i WANTED TO ORDER A 5W PANEL AND I COULD NOT FIGURE OUT HOW THROUGH GOOGLE OR THE LINK. THANKS FOR THE QUICK RESPONSE. A XO OWNER. (I will now stop yelling) |
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:Unfortunately I think it is very unlikely you will get a reply from Bill. If you look at the top of the page it says "We regret most products below will only be available to developing countries initially--except where noted (e.g. Weza's foot-powered Portable Energy Source). " For the time being there is not a mechanism to send these power generation devices to individuals - OLPC's focus is very heavily weighted towards offering these solutions to schools in developing countries. |
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::is this true that this product actually exists? and who expects a 8-10 year old to operate the thing enough time to get an XO charged? Are we that innocent or does OLPC know something we do not? [[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] 18:24, 24 May 2008 (EDT) |
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I got a response back from bill saying that he would have more information available in a few days time, so I'm still hopeful. -taylor 12 Jan 2008 |
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== Alternate sources of supply == |
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Since the early/mid 1990's the [http://www.ccrane.com/more%2Dcategories/alternative%2Dpower/ C.Crane Co.] of northern California has been a US distributor of Freeplay® products, Solarcells, and other alternative energy products. |
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: I've been happily using my FreeplayPlus wind-up Shortwave Radio here in the Rural:Philippines that I bought from then back in 1999. |
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C. Crane Company, Inc. |
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1001 Main Street |
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Fortuna, CA 95540 |
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(800) 522-8863 |
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You should maybe write ask them about stocking/adding to their catalog the Solar (PV) blankets, and any of the other stuff, as OLPC is not a for profit company and are very busy '''designing''' and not SUPPLYING commercially these products :) --[[User:Chief Mike|Chief Mike]] 00:13, 2 February 2008 (EST) |
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==Page format / navigation== |
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I would suggest a back-link at the top of the page pointing to [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals Peripherials] This would make it easier to navigate to the parent from this child page, to get more info than just 'latest product news', especially if someone gets here from a different direction (i.e. from XO Solar) I am seeing a trend of this lack of navigation aids, organization, etc throughout this wiki (do a What-links-here from the Books page to see a LOT of orphan and duplicate info/comments pages) :[[User:Tinktron|Tinktron]] 02:33, 19 June 2008 (EDT) |
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