Community charge

摘要

AUK student engineering project is providing electricity to rural Rwanda using a centralised solar-energy charging station and portable battery boxes.rnThe battery boxes contain a gel-basedlead-acidbattery, protection circuitry and two 12V outputs with an LED lamp, They also contain an in-built 65W inverter for providing 230V of AC power for electrical appliances, including radios and mobile phone chargers.rnSince forming the project, dubbed e.quinox, in 2008, students at Imperial College London (ICL) have established the charging station in a village in the Minazi Sector of Northern Rwanda.