{"id":2462,"date":"2025-07-08T04:54:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2025-07-11T05:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:00:32","slug":"solar-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/08\/solar-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a picture of me doing some testing of my first &#8216;Solar Generator&#8217; a home made unit &#8211; but hey, it works very well and with the new panels charges up super fast and says charged all day long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reminds me of Larry&#8217;s first set ups he built many years ago!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has a solar charge controller, to hook the panels up to, a LiPo4 battery &#8211; 100 Amp hours (About h 1\/2 the size of my Predator power center) and a 400Watt AC convertor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason I built this one was to power the pool pump!  We have no AC back there in the far corner of the yard so this does the trick.  I had a small 25 watt panel I used with it at first, worked OK but just did not have enough &#8216;ummph&#8217; to keep it going all day and night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 200 watt portable panels, no problem!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Run that pool pump 24\/7 &#8211; free.  I like that idea!  Clean, cool and free entertainment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a picture of me doing some testing of my first &#8216;Solar Generator&#8217; a home made unit &#8211; but hey, it works very well and with the new panels charges up super fast and says charged all day long. Reminds me of Larry&#8217;s first set ups he built many years ago! It has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2462","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\/2462","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=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions\/2465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}