{"id":1995,"date":"2025-02-27T05:54:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T12:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2025-03-01T06:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T13:05:08","slug":"lithium-ion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/27\/lithium-ion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithium Ion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is my new Meshtastic Setup out in the shed&#8230;  I have a small solar panel powering it all and the new Lithium Ion battery powering it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The system is WAY oversized but hey, it will never go dead for sure!  This guy runs on 13.4v all hours of the day and night, perfect all the way!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am floored by the power of an LiPo battery &#8211; this little tiny set up ran a desktop PC, 17&#8243; LCD Monitor and an Alexa Echo for over 5 hours before dropping below 12V DC and tripping the AC invertor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is amazing really, for a $60 battery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had a bank of 4 big regular lead acid batteries at the farm that would not even run the same 400Watt invertor for that long just powering one fluorescent shop light in the garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I had 4 of these little guys wired in series, you could power the world! (Exaggerating of course, but they are IMPRESSIVE!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can spend over $1000 for a single car battery sized LiPo, I can see why now &#8211; they are definitely the batteries of he future!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my new Meshtastic Setup out in the shed&#8230; I have a small solar panel powering it all and the new Lithium Ion battery powering it. The system is WAY oversized but hey, it will never go dead for sure! This guy runs on 13.4v all hours of the day and night, perfect all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995","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\/1995","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=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}