{"id":2514,"date":"2025-07-24T04:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2025-07-29T04:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T10:21:23","slug":"west-facing-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/24\/west-facing-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"West facing panel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I added a second panel to my shed solar system, this one facing north east&#8217;ish to capture the afternoon sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What an improvement, the hot afternoon sunshine really boost the charge on my batteries and gives it enough &#8216;Umph&#8217; to run through the night!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is running a 1000W convertor that powers 2 Meshtastic nodes for on grid computing, a small fan to keep it all cool from 10am to 8pm during the day, a solar node Dell micro PC running Windows 11, and most importantly &#8211; my pool pump!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything runs perfectly and is online 24\/7, for a little bit of free electricity!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I invested in some more, or bigger batteries I could have a valid, big working system with just two panels, 175 watts each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a lot of fun, and I am learning solar, the ins, the outs and the intricacies of getting it all hooked up and working for an inexpensive system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This would be a great system for a distant cabin, land, or property with no &#8216;real power&#8217; &#8211; you could put a cell hot spot, a couple cameras, and be able to remotely monitor the property very inexpensively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I added a second panel to my shed solar system, this one facing north east&#8217;ish to capture the afternoon sun. What an improvement, the hot afternoon sunshine really boost the charge on my batteries and gives it enough &#8216;Umph&#8217; to run through the night! It is running a 1000W convertor that powers 2 Meshtastic nodes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2514","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\/2514","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=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}