Yep, but those fans require almost no power. You take some little bitty
solar panel the size of a sheet of paper and lay it on the roof and it
would no how no way put out the 3 amps that Koolatron needs.
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR

Don Spence typed:
> SAAB (and others) had a solar powered system that would power vent
> the car when inside temps reached a set level. (As when parked in the
> sun) The panels were inconspicuous as in built in to the roof.
>
>
> On Jun 16, 2007, at 8:16 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>
>> Subject: Re: Solar panels for your Vanagon..
>>
>> So .. what about solar panels to power a coolatron .. I run it off
>> of my aux
>> battery but I'm thinking that solar might give me more time till
>> the aux
>> battery is dead ..well .. it would obviously give me more time ..
>> but would
>> that extra time be significant.
>>
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