"Jim Thompson" wrote in
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"Hefty" solar panels don't come for cheap.

That's true, but they are about half the price that they were about ten
years ago. That said, a small Honda generator when you really need a couple
of kW and a few watts of solar panel to keep the aircraft battery batting
and the keepalives on the radios keeping may be the hybrid way to go.


Do you have regular enough winds to use for battery recharging?

Well, we are at 3000' on the west slope of the Sierra on the top of a small
hill with nothing (literally) between us and Japan except for a wire fence,
and it's down {;-) We get some decent winds, but nothing you can count on.
Today, for example, the peak wind was somewhere around 7 knots and the
average somewhere around 3 or 4 knots. Then again, last week we had a
howler come through here at 40 knots and last for a day. Nothing
dependable.

Jim