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Are there guides to setting up solar powered Pis?
by debacle 14y ago
Are there guides to setting up solar powered Pis?
- davewasthere 14y agoWell, a 60W/h battery would, in theory, power it for one day. I'd use something like an old motorcycle batter. (12V 10Ah) Which might run for 2 days continuous. Then, charging, you'd want at a bare minimum, a 10Watt solar panel. That, at an average of 6 hours usable sunlight each day, could possibly keep you running. Get a few dark stormy days though, and you'd run out of juice I think. Could be fun. I'm tempted to co-host my Pi in Austria now that I'm looking at using Arduinos for my project instead. (Order of magnitude less current drain and instant start, which is awesome)
- driverdan 14y agoYou'd need a deep cycle battery. You'd kill a motorcycle battery pretty quickly. I'd strongly recommend a sealed battery too.
- jrockway 14y agoI recommend picking up one of these on eBay: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen... I "know a guy" who will recharge it for you.
- NegativeLatency 14y agoIt is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.
- mvanveen 14y ago> Well, a 60W/h battery would, in theory, power it for one day. I'd use something like an old motorcycle batter. (12V 10Ah) Which might run for 2 days continuous. I do this currently with a raspberry pi in the front of my backpack, using a 4500mAH lithium ion battery I bought off Amazon. Works great. It gets about a 12 hour charge so far, but I haven't really been keeping careful track of battery life.
- boristhespider 14y agoYou can quite easily find startlingly cheap solar powered USB chargers, intended for use with mobile phones.
- jodrellblank 14y agoSee also: how my coworker bricked his iPhone.