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Its fairly simple. Get a solar panel (a couple hundred bucks used), a deep cycle 12 volt (marine) battery (70 bucks) , and a Notebook DC CAR Charger Power Adapter (18 bucks on ebay). The DC car charger power adaptor should have multiple settings ( 15, 16, 17,18, 19, and 20 volts) so you can set it to the voltage for your laptop. To find the setting just look on the transformer box that's part of the power cord for your laptop. Hook up the solar panel to the deep cycle battery. Then run a wire from the positive terminal to the nipple end of the car cigarette lighter adapter and a wire from the negative terminal to the side metal connection of the cigarette lighter adapter. There ya go. About 4 hours of laptop use per day of sunshine. Make sure your connections are good (and safe) and consider a charge controller to make sure you don't over charge the battery.

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