This is my solar powered setup. A somewhat old Pixel 6a that fell from a foot and a half (really!?), a 10w Solar setup that was around 20$ on amazon. And an old compost container I have too many of. Ill be giving it a proper 3d printed case when I get a chance (and a host of other changes) but for now this works! Its worth about 40$ in total (the phone is now worth about 21$ on the open market).
Website: https://solar.chrisco.me/
Website was made with a collection of scripts, apache2 (nginx for some reason did not install, errors), and termux. Ill open source the whole setup in a bit. Theres not much to it to be honest.
Hopefully keeping the battery at 80% will help the lifetime of the battery. I may bump it up at some point if it keeps dieing because lack of sunlight. But we shall see.
More info in the link. I couldn’t get Piefed to repost from a GotoSocial link.
Very cool, I recently got a solar panel and battery. Now I wish I got a battery that could input more from the panel. The panel is supposed to be 100w but the battery only takes 65w when running my tablet I discharge it at like 68w because thats what the USB c input taps out at but it uses around 100w at full tilt so I can’t charge the battery enough and can’t charge my tablet enough
The only issue now on my camping gaming setup is the glare.
I want to do something with solar for my homelab, even if it only ran off solar partially each day would be super nice