by pa_friendly_guy » Wed May 16, 2012 4:07 am
Yes, They are making them in the Burgh now. { That is Pittsburgh for youns that aint local ] I felt the units were a bit pricy but they worked. They buy the solar panals for their units, but make the Bike generator and the inverter box here locally. The box has some deep cycle batterys in it to store the power from the solar panels or the bike generator to be used later. It seemed to work well. At the Earth Day event that I attended they powered their display from the Box and had no problems. The small box is designed to operate your house in a power outage or for short periods. The Big Box can operate things for a long time but needs more than the one small solar panel or the Bike to charge it up. The inverter Box worked well I thought and was well designed. The Battery storage made alot of sense to me. The units seemed to work as advertized. The Bike generator by itself was $500, the small inverter box was $1000. I did not price the Large inverter box. They sell the inverter box as an alternative to buying a gererator for power outages for your home, the Bike generator can power a TV and a Game box and some people localy are buying that for their kids. If they want to play Video games they have to pedal. Those familys do not buy the solar panels [ Which the Company recommends. ] They have found that the kids play games for an hour or two at the most and then go out side, which is what the parents want in the 1st place. It seemed like a great idea, and a great local company to me. I think the products are worth looking into. I really liked the Bike generator, but I like anything with a crank, so you really can't take my opion.
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