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Testing: Packaging focus groups in Kenya

“The [kerosene] lamp emits smoke little by little and it fills the house and so it becomes a problem because children can have chest problems. Therefore it is not good. It does not have any advantage, just that one doesn’t have a choice that is why we use it… If I get something like this [GravityLight], I will not go back to using kerosene. This is because it cannot make someone sick, it will make one to have good health because it does not emit anything…”
— Lawrence Gatimu Mbuthia

In December, Caroline took the first SLA prototype along with these packaging and instruction guides out to Kenya to gather feedback from 40 men and women living with little, if any electricity around Nairobi county.

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tags: Testing, Kenya
Friday 02.26.16
Posted by Fadi Dada
 

An Update from the Workshop: Accelerated Life Testing

With the arrival of new prototypes of the GL02 design, we are testing and assessing their durability and performance over time. Having developed a bespoke Accelerated Life Testing rig,  we’re able to condense one year of use - four hours times by 365 days – into two months of non-stop running.

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tags: R&D;, Testing, Workshop
categories: Technical Development, Research
Thursday 10.29.15
Posted by Fadi Dada