While electronic companies worldwide are complying with their environmental responsibilities in manufacturing products and managing their waste at the highest standards possible, a Filipino-owned company is also banking on green technology to save Mother Earth and the people’s pocket from energy cost through solar chargers.
Tritec Integrated Philippines Inc. has manufactured GreenMobile Solar Chargers that have lithium batteries which can be charged by facing its solar panels directly to the sun and by plugging the unit to a computer using a USB (universal serial bus) cable.
“Our solar chargers dramatically reduce energy cost of gadget users because they don’t have to spend any or just need to spend less because it does not directly consume current,” claimed Tristan San Buenaventura, president of Tritec.
The solar chargers have solar panels made of semiconductors composed of silicon that directly converts sunlight into electricity. These are compatible with popular mobile handset models, MP3 players, digital cameras, gaming devices and other handy tech stuff. The complete adapter compatibility list is listed on the company web site, www.gmsolarcharger.com.
“Next month we’ll add one more adapter in addition to our current nine to give solar chargers more connectivity options.”
Tritec’s solar chargers have three models. The foldable handmade leatherette GM30 can fully charge a gadget in two-and-a-half to three hours from a full sunlight exposure of 10 to 12 hours, or three- to four-hour USB port charge.
The GM50 unit has two detachable solar panels that shorten charging time of devices from one to four hours from a direct-sunlight charge of eight to 10 hours, or three- to four-hour USB port charge, almost similar to the lightest GM90 unit wrapped in aluminum casing that has a pop-up multicrystalline solar panel.
The suggested retail price of GM30 is P2,245, while GM50 and GM90 cost P2,148 and P2,548, respectively.
“These [solar chargers] are portable so users can use them anytime and anywhere. Next year we’re going to launch a model that will cater to laptops,” disclosed San Buenaventura.
He added that with their products, tech aficionados and mobile people no longer need to solely recharge their battery-powered gadgets on electric outlets.
The company also claimed that GreenMobile Solar Chargers protect functional and fashionable tech widgets against reverse current, circuit integrated to prevent batteries from being discharged, overcharged, over current and short circuit.
He further boasted, “They don’t even have to bring spare cell as solar chargers have infinite power to power up low-battery gizmos.”
