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  • Re: Solar Pi

    From jrsharp@314:413/8 to paulie420 on Mon May 6 21:49:21 2024
    +1 - I am also interested in your exploits in solar BBSing... I have similar solar ambitions yet to be realized. :)

    ... "It could kill you." McCoy to Spock

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  • From n2qfd@314:413/8 to All on Mon Mar 25 13:01:42 2024
    So I know there was a BBS called Solar Pi in the past over in Buffalo NY... but we just started today with taking the Queen City BBS in Elmira over to a solar power bank.
    Queen City is a mystic system that's running on a Pi3B+

    Now it's time to see if the dinky solar cell can keep up with the demands!


    de N2QFD
    queencitybbs.ddns.net:607

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  • From paulie420@314:413/8 to n2qfd on Tue Mar 26 22:15:39 2024
    So I know there was a BBS called Solar Pi in the past over in Buffalo NY... but we just started today with taking the Queen City BBS in Elmira over to a solar power bank.
    Queen City is a mystic system that's running on a Pi3B+

    Now it's time to see if the dinky solar cell can keep up with the demands!

    Oh, thats neat!!! I hope you get success with powering the bbS from the sun, n2! Let us know how it w0rks out [or doesn't!!].



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  • From n2qfd@314:413/8 to paulie420 on Wed Mar 27 02:23:08 2024
    So.... we cleared the launch pad, but self destructed before reaching orbit!

    I had a flight captain that was stationed at Cornell for making the wrong call... Don't think I'll get that lucky!


    So the solar pack came and in the box was a little card that read ..::BTW this solar cell is too small to do anything we told you it would do in the advertisement:::... So I thought ok, I'll try it anyway, it's a large reserve power bank. With 38300mAh of power at a 1200 mAh draw I should still get some performance.

    I think they lied about it's capacity as well. So bad review, return to sender!

    I still want Queen City to go off grid for power but it's back to drawing board as of today.

    N2QFD

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  • From paulie420@314:413/8 to n2qfd on Wed Mar 27 17:49:51 2024
    So the solar pack came and in the box was a little card that read ..::BTW this solar cell is too small to do anything we told you it would do in the advertisement:::... So I thought ok, I'll try it anyway, it's
    a large reserve power bank. With 38300mAh of power at a 1200 mAh draw I should still get some performance.

    Well I hope you find a solution that performs a bit better - watching for future updates. :P



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