{"id":1945,"date":"2025-02-11T03:56:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T10:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2025-02-15T04:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T11:05:41","slug":"heltec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/11\/heltec\/","title":{"rendered":"Heltec"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pulled out the ole Heltec again, still been messing with Meshtastic trying to get it at 100% so I can put it out in the shed hooked up to the little antenna I set up and running off of solar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kinda outta site, outta mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got a new solar panel, solar controller and a Lithium Ion battery ( a good sized one &#8211; 15AH) and spun this guy up for some testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kind of a cloudy day, and late afternoon &#8211; when i fired it up the battery had 13.3 VDC.  Good enough to run a small USB device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ran it overnight and checked the next morning, 13.3 VDC.  Nice!  And it had traffic flowing through it from all the other mesh nodes in my area &#8211; success!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This battery could probably run 20 of these things with no problem, Lithium Ion &#8211; IMPRESSIVE!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is one of my next spring or summer projects is to get a golf cart, restore it and fix &#8216;er up, replace all the batteries with Lithium ION and have a fun ride for running around Johnstown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(They are legal on the streets if registered with the city)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulled out the ole Heltec again, still been messing with Meshtastic trying to get it at 100% so I can put it out in the shed hooked up to the little antenna I set up and running off of solar. Kinda outta site, outta mind. I got a new solar panel, solar controller and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}