It's also important that you NOT put a period on the end of the link, even if it is on the end of a sentence. And if putting it in quotes, leave a space between the link and the quote mark both front and back. Fred Tug 44 ---------------------------------------- From: "D C _Mac_ Macdonald" <k2gkk@hotmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 5:48 PM To: "Al Thomason" <thomason.al@gmail.com>, "Great Loop List" <great-loop@lists.trawlering.com> Subject: Re: GL: Summary - our experience with Solar Panels (With TinyURLs) The wrapping of texts is a common unwanted feature of several email servers. Apparently Google's gmail is one of them. In the future, try enclosing the URLs in regular parentheses. This works for some, but not for others. Also, if you hit a RETURN at the end of each URL, it seems to underline the URLs and make them "clickable." * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** D C "Mac" Macdonald ** * Grand Lake & OKC - OK * ** AGLCA (#217) & USPS ** * * (no current boat) * * ** USAF & FAA, Retired ** ** Amateur Radio K2GKK ** * * Since 30 Nov 1953 * * * k2gkk hotmail dot com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > From: thomason.al@gmail.com > To: great-loop@lists.trawlering.com > Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 13:29:38 -0800 > Subject: Re: GL: Summary - our experience with Solar Panels (With TinyURLs) > > Arg, still have not figured how to prevent clipping.... > > > > Viking Star > 45' Monk Sr. / McQueen > mvVikingStar.blogspot.com > > > -----Original Message----- > > > Almost two years ago we installed a coupled of 245W solar panels with a > Morning Star MPPT controller. One of the features of the controller is a > data logger and I have pulled data every month to document the systems > output. In short, here in the PNW we get around 135Ah/day from May 1st > through the end of September, and often get over 150Ah/day during the peak > cursing months. I have more details here: > > http://mvvikingstar.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-year-and-bit-on-solar-panels-last .html or http://tinyurl.com/o6lken8 > > > > I will likely stop making too many specific posts about our solar panels as > I am not sure there is much more to say. But I do know going into this a > couple of years ago it was hard to find actual / specific data, so I wanted > to well document our experience. I hope anyone looking into Solar can find > some useful information in what we documented. I had also worked to > model/predict their output and am happy to say our actual production has > been very close to the prediction. If anyone is interested in modeling > their output (Size of panels, if you tilt them, and location in the world > all come into play), I have a little more here: > > http://mvvikingstar.blogspot.com/2012/10/solar-panels-on-boat-modeling-and.h tml or http://tinyurl.com/lyxlco5 > > And if anyone wants to see specifically what we installed: > http://mvvikingstar.blogspot.com/2012/05/we-have-solar.html > > > > > All our 'solar' posts can be found via this link: > http://mvvikingstar.blogspot.com/search/label/Solar > > > After almost two years of Solar we are very happy with them. They are will > on the way to crossing the ROI point sometime next year while at the same > time we have been able to enjoy several additional quite generator-less > hours! > > > -al- > > > Viking Star > 45' Monk Sr. / McQueen > mvVikingStar.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/great-loop_lists.trawlering.com To modify your Great-Loop subscription options (change email address, unsubscribe, etc.) go to: http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/options/great-loop_lists.trawlering.com

In my experience: URLs sent in _messages formatted as text_ get broken when they are sent if they are long enough to overflow one line and, as a consequence, are wrapped by the software. URLs sent in _messages formatted as HTML_ do not break and remain clickable after delivery. Of course if one's preference is to send email in text format, the simplest solution (for those with web access and sufficient bandwidth) is to use http://tinyurl.com or other shorteners like http://goo.gl/ to make short links.