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From my previous post...and don't think you can find them commercially now.
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Something beyond two nails and a "suicide cord":.......a commercial version: **broken link removed**
Ken
Unless the rules of the game prohibit storage you might use a few solar cells to charge a battery - so there's enough power to do the job. You'd need to run some experiments to determine how much power to cook your hot dog - but once you've done that you can work backward.
Even before you do the experiments you can estimate the amount of power required to heat the hot dog from whatever the starting point is to 150 deg F. I know there is data available on energy required to cool/freeze various foods.
An extremely crude place to begin would be to measure the power (current and time) required to cook a hot dog by conventional means - a burner on the oven, a countertop toaster oven. Those are inefficient methods by any measure but they give you an upper limit. Maybe your rules don't limit you to a battery, inverter and toaster oven.
And an electric chair, at 2400 VAC and 4 to 8 amps, does about the same thing.At 100 watts, it will take 143 seconds (sightly more than two minutes) to heat-it up.
Not enough to cook a hot dog. Google Solar hot dog cooker?
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