On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Bryan Berry wrote: > David, good idea. > > there are only about 6 light bulbs at the Bishwamitra (smaller school) > and less than 5 at Bashuki the larger school.
that may not be enough to matter. on one of the wiki pages it mentioned 25-30 as a number. switching to LED's will save about 90% of the power that the bulbs currently use (plus they will last essentially forever) > I will have to ask Ram (our power guy) about what's available on the > local market. LED lights are not readily available in the local market even in the US, they tend to be internet orders only > Regards to getting some for free, it would be great if you could put us > in contact w/ someone to donate them. In my experience it can be very > expensive time-wise to seek donations from companies w/out an existing > personal connection. Sometimes it just cheaper to buy something than to > spend the time trying to get a donation. That said, a strong personal > connection can make it very easy to get a donation. I don't have any personal contacts. David Lang > On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 04:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Bryan Berry wrote: >> >>> Sulochan Acharya and I are keeping journals of Nepal's pilot schools on >>> the wiki and the OLE Nepal blog. >>> >>> http://blog.olenepal.org/ >>> >>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bashuki_Journal >>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bishwamitra_Journal >>> >>> We will do our best to keep updating the wiki pages. >>> >>> We hope that reporting this info will be helpful to other pilot sites >>> and to the larger OLPC community. >> >> thanks for posting this info. >> >> one thing that struck me as i was reading your write-ups was about the >> power problems. both schools have very limited power, one of the schools >> mentioned the power consumption of the light bulbs as part of the >> calculation. Assuming that they schools are useing conventional light >> bulbs, they could probably save more power than the laptops need to charge >> by switching to a high-efficiancy bulb. >> >> given the unreliable power, florecent bulbs are probably not a reasonable >> option, but (assuming theft is not too big a factor) LED bulbs would last >> and save the power needed to run the other equipment. >> >> equipping a school with such bulbs is not cheap (a few thousand dollars >> per school), but there may be charities around who could fund this. I'm >> willing to bet that nobody has ever asked them to fund anything like this. >> >> you may be able to get some donations from the manufacturers as well. >> >> David Lang > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel