{"id":3996,"date":"2026-07-24T12:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2026-07-27T12:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:38:25","slug":"new-solar-for-the-fountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/24\/new-solar-for-the-fountain\/","title":{"rendered":"New solar for the fountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got a new 20 watt solar panel for the fountain, I think this will be the final peice to make it all work. I just need to hook it in and make a the connections!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I go this one with a built in charge controller which is awesome, going to see how it works and it may be good for some future projects also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kinda like a trickle battery charger &#8211; charges when the sun is out and stops when the battery is full!  Makes sense to me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Playing with it now, charging up some old LiPo batteries I have in the garage &#8211; seems to work very well, charges them up, then goes to float mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Love it &#8211; perfect or this application and I am sure it will complete my fountain project, finally!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Day 205 &#8211;<\/strong> Small actions, repeated consistently, lead to extraordinary results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Johnstown Technology Partners<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/johnstowntechnology.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/johnstowntechnology.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Colorado&#8217;s Premier Computer Repair Experts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fast, honest, and reliable IT solutions for Johnstown and beyond. 30+ years of expertise in computer repair and data recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a new 20 watt solar panel for the fountain, I think this will be the final peice to make it all work. I just need to hook it in and make a the connections! I go this one with a built in charge controller which is awesome, going to see how it works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3996","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\/3996","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=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/4000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}