Our Brunton solar panel which has for past year kept me effortlessly powered up on my walking trips, has unfortunely developed a fault… We spent most of our rest day yesterday trying to get it working again, we even took it to a pissed up old car starter and alternator mechanic to test the power output at various points. In the end the solution we came up with (by accident) was to half roll it up and put a shoe on it! I don’t know why that works, but it does.
Obviously not the most reliably solution, so we’re looking into somehow getting a new one out to us on route.
Tracking our progress right across America is no mean feet. Luckily we've had a good deal of help from the kind folks at Nokia, who supplied us with their latest 
Said, on May 8th, 2008 at 3:49 pm :
“In the end the solution we came up with (by accident) was to half roll it up and put a shoe on it!”
lol :)
Good luck guys!