Next-Level Communication: Solar Powered CB Radios Revealed

[@AA-gj3kt]

Now you're talkin!!! Looking forward to it. 👍👍!!!

[@alcampbell]

New guy here. Thumbs up to your channel. I looked in my closet the other day and I had about 4 brand new CB units in original boxes sitting lonely in there. I guess at a certain point in time I was very interested in CB and Ham radio and suddenly I just got interested in other things. LOL. And you know what those other things were. No, not girls. It was TCP IP and computers. I been meaning to set up one of my CB`s again and raise some more hell. KD6CFE was here. 73`s.

[@charleswills4554]

That's definitely a good idea for off grid communication. I'm going to try the same thing . I have a Jackery I use for camping and a couple of A99s here I can hopefully make into one good antenna. My plan is to somehow make a mount I can clamp in the roof rack on the Avalanche to attach the antenna then power the radio with the Jackery and solor panel. Awesome video .Take care. 514 Ontario Canada

[@JohnnyNJones]

That sounds like something you could easily do! It doesn’t take that large of a solar panel to run a radio, So you can mount one about this size and you should be good! I can’t wait to see the photos, and hear the results

[@charleswills4554]

@@JohnnyNJones I'm working on it. Between work and storms theres not much time for anything.

[@BoB4jjjjs]

Did you cook your finals with to much voltage? Why didn't you charge a car battery from the solar panel, then run the CB from it. 14.2 - 14.5V to charge the battery. Use hefty diodes in series to drop the voltage. You could use a big voltage dropping resistor from an old Valve/tube radio, they are the big wire-wound resistors with taps for various voltages. They may get hot, but for all the voltage you want to drop, use diodes in series, or a regulator. Heatsink, then V in neutral V out, you might need small capacitors from each leg to neutral. Pick the one nearist the voltage you want. For wind power, fit an alternator to a homemade propeller, smokin" 🙃

[@JohnnyNJones]

The voltage coming out of the charge controller is about 12 to 13 V But there’s a lot of fluctuation because the charge controller is pulsing 20 volts to try to maintain 14 volts It’s not a great set up to run a Radio It’s a way better set up to hook to a battery. But sometimes you have to do things the silly way so you can get more views on your videos 👍 And proving that I can run a CB radio simply off the power of the sun I thought would be appealing enough for a video Once I get the entire set up finished there should be no noise on the line, I’ll hook the solar charger up to a battery and then make sure the power is filtered before it gets to the Radio That’s actually a pretty cool idea with the alternator I can make a bicycle powered Radio 😆

[@BoB4jjjjs]

@@JohnnyNJones You'll run out of puff 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@JohnnyNJones]

@@BoB4jjjjs I’d probably pass out trying to talk skip But it sure would be fun 😎😆😆