Good morning on yet another day in a series of identical days, at least weather wise.
Spend some of the morning messing about with a number of solar panels in my garage. One is a fake, it claims to be 130watts, it is far too small for that. Anyway I was just checking to see if they work and at the same time testing that my emergency battery charger still works.
There is no way that is a 130 watt panel. In bright sunlight (but not correctly orientated) it gave out 20 watts. That device hanging down my the side light on the bullbar measures voltage, amps, watts etc quite handy for this sort of thing.
That’s an el cheapo PWM solar controller that came with something else, I have repurposed it to charge a car battery in an emergency. Just testing it out - works OK. I throw it in the back of the car when going to remote areas. Am starting to get ready for the Oodnadatta Track trip.
That’s my morning so far, what are you up to?
Take care…