Bit moany this video - my solar setup is performing really badly now that the days are short and the sun is elusive.
By Julian
Youtuber, shed dweller, solar charge controller aficionado
Good morning all…
Youtuber, shed dweller, solar charge controller aficionado
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And i though the solar you mean is solar from mamamoo🙃
If I remember you have a couple of hundred watts of solar panels feeding your batteries? What are your losses in the cabling in between, even in the gloom of our winter I would have thought they could keep the batts optimal? Unless your draining them daily?
I bought a pack of tripple A Tronic batteries from Lidl. Says pre-charged but as soon as I put them in my camera it went straight down to 1 bar battery lol. I do use Tronic in another camera, good batteries
I live 44° north and I have the same problems as you!
Time for a wind turbine ?
Same problem my 250 watt panel is not keeping my battery topped up I have to limit the use of the led flood it powers, roll on summer, perhaps you should make a small wind turbine, project for next year?
I have one of those work lights. Did not know that clas ohlsson existed outside Sweden. Not as bright as a torch but lights up a far bigger area. Useful for night time fishing or bathing :p
I've been having the same trouble on my main solar system. However I'm finding that my Arduino PWM5 solar charge controllers seem to be getting more from our low sun levels than the MPPT charger.
My very small 30w worth of panels (behind a window too) is struggling to make even a few mAh per day at the moment! Last week I saw under 1Ah of power. It is managing to keep my 12v 50Ah SLA at about 13.00-13.20v though with zero load besides my Arduino charge controller (about 2mA at night and 10mA daytime load).
Moving my panels outside would probably help a little but that's sadly not an option for me living in a flat.
The manual for that Claa Olhslon light says "7.2 v/ 900 mAH, NIMH".
53.693728, north up here, even more gloomy
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