Solar Sunday Experiments 33: Moving the solar panels for December, testing OKMO's 12v 100ah battery

[windsnexus]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who sees you have impeccable fashion!

[momomunsta]

Love the hat and jacket! Cool look, might have to steal your fashion.. 😅

[The_Last_Post]

Rin, do you ever still mess around with 18650’s?? I have a pile of them sitting about but they seem redundant now LiFePo4 is on the scene

[poland]

a ring of batteries always sharing a load, and then you come in and pick one up to take home for entertainment goodness. primo

[hardymichael]

Good 👍 😊eco flow delta pro 3 system check it out

[elizabethjohnston]

What gaming do you do? Love the builds, appreciate the reviews.

[SawdustSoftwareSiliconChippy]

There’s no reason to apologize for battery reviews. You have the opportune to assess, as little or no significant financial cost to yourself, which we, your viewers, do not. However, I have 1 criticism. The solar charging, though less than ideal, is dependent on the vagaries of the weather. Thus, the test subjects (batteries), are not being compared with a standard.
I have 2 ideas that may address that;
1: Wall/Grid powered charger (an opportune to asses chargers, maybe?).
2: A dedicated solar cell sensor (or etc), to compare the light intensity with time, against the battery’s charge (the solar sensor effectively providing a power correction factor).

I thought your repositioning of the solar panels, parallel to the brick wall, is a good idea. Though I also suggest, moving the panels further away from the shadows, and tilting on the edge of the build’s wall. My not be 45°, though enough for a free (no cost) increase of output.

20l buckets, filled with water/sand/junk, could make good anchors/mounts, for a chassis supporting the panels, at a suite angle, and prevent all, but the most severe storms, moving the panels.

Again, another enjoyable and informative, presentation.

[DaliwolfBacon]

To make the buildings you manage off grid-ish...how many panels and batteries will you need? I would like to put solar panels on my garage facing south as a battery backup. I have to look into this more. I am in Wisconsin, so we don't get a lot of light in the winter.

[poland]

man i cant get enough of those photons

[benneilsen]

Rinoa, what are your thoughts on Factorio?

[DodgyFPV]

Thinking about power saving it won't be much I don't think if it would be worth it or not, you can buy an power adapter to use a standard PSU so you can use one PSU to power the board and the gpu?

[zakksrage]

It would 35% better to have them laid on the that edge of the building wall so they lay at a angle to catch all of the low horizon sun all day versus only getting a few percent of direct sun

[mannyfragoza]

Maybe it's me, but your wires to your charge controller look a little undersized unless they are solid copper.

[davef.]

You're cool! Thanks for the videos and be well.