[MR] Do these things work?

[Roy B. Scherer]

At 03:55 AM 6/12/2008 -0500, CEARA wrote:

>I know it's discouraging to find something that seems like a great idea
>but isn't rated for our purposes...but it also makes us start thinking
>about other possibilities. As they say, necessity is the mother of
>invention--and that's the fun part!

Two suggestions:
         1) If you want to be period, all you need is a slave to wave a fan
at you.  The fan design may vary according to the culture of your persona;
design of slaves has long been standardized.
         2) If you insist on an electric motor 
instead of a slave, what you need
is a solar-power setup with a 12-volt 
output.  The solar array doesn't actually
have to run the fan, merely recharge the battery.  This will cost you at least
a hundred bucks (or considerably more), if prices haven't changed too much
since I last researched a similar prospect.
-- YIS,
-- Britton

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		- - Roy B. Scherer
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