HALVE YOUR POWER AND INCREASE YOUR BATTERY LIFE - MESHTASTIC/LORA SOLAR NODE PT 2

[@HawaiianFlyGuy]

You are correct, you are doing this for fun! I am enjoying your solar mesh journey, for I am on the same path...... or Mesh!

[@tech-rich]

Great video and an interesting project. I have similar style antennas and found bending them 90 degrees does affect their swr a lot vs straight. Might be worth experimenting with positions. All good fun.

[@RobCanada]

Just as some feedback I built a RAK version a of this a few days after your first video (same light etc). So far mine hasn't dropped below 85%. I also only used one battery. Thanks for the update it's an interesting experiment.

[@mrpringlehead]

Which type of climate are you in? Lots of sun?

[@TheOhioOutdoorsman1]

Great vid man. Very similar to my build with the same issues lol. I am going to start posting about my build here soon but it is nice to see someone else on the same path with different ideas.

[@vladapetrovic5318]

Very useful, thanks for sharing this kind of techno stuff with us.😉

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Hey mate, if you want some cheap 18650's, get your hands on some "faulty" power tool battery packs, it's always 1 or 2 bad cells that take down the whole pack ! Ask your local HW store or some blokes at a building site. It's also worth buying 10,000mah battery banks on special, if they're the cheap fat version they'll have 4 18650's inside 👍 I'm hoping the Rak WisBlock module gets cheaper soon because they're 10x better on standby power than these Heltecs. This might be a stupid idea, but could you use a digital watch alarm to trigger a latching circuit from its piezo alarm ? One alarm at 10pm and another at 6 am to catch the dawn ??

[@julesd]

Hey @knoxieman... Could you please fix the links on your loft PSU post... You linked to the heltec case twice. Thanks. Loving the vids, btw. Keep the good work up!

[@chrissewell1608]

If you added more batteries or larger batteries, would that help? If they would even fit into your, fence light's, housing?

[@RCDUDEFPV]

Thumbs up and thanks for the print files

[@newtlab]

Hello, what model of multimeter do you have?

[@USER-LlewisTLDB]

Remember your teletubbie land video I heard rumors. On Google and stuff The owner flooded the dome to turn the hill into a pond

[@Farming-Technology]

Can't you just use the esp32 built in deepsleep and rtc to achieve the same thing?

[@Dogbreath1974]

Take that level back to Wickes and ask for a new bubble, £3 for each new buddle these days...clearly on the p155

[@sid35gb]

The obvious solution would be to move the solar panels south by about 2000 miles 😂 joking aside nice little project 👍

[@M6JKW]

awesome 🙂👍

[@nxesr]

What is that? At first glance looks like an air filter of some sort with a solar panel.

[@chrissewell1608]

I looks like a small (LED) security light, w/ solar panel on top.

[@losttapes1705]

Please fix the weather instead.

[@ragheadand420roll]

Its kamalas climate change why he cant charge it well. 😂

[@TheOptimod]

Channel getting boring, need to do some more servicing videos.

[@spueli118]

use RAK Component and your Problems are solved