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.
Will it survive winter months?
Over here, probably. Its the summer Ill have to do something about. If it gets over 110F constantly it might not be good to keep it out there.
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
