HALVE YOUR POWER AND INCREASE YOUR BATTERY LIFE - MESHTASTIC/LORA SOLAR NODE PT 2

On todays video I look at a simple way to EXTEND your battery LIFE on your solar node automatically using simple and cheap off the shelf bits, there are other setting for power saving that you can set in the Heltec app that will also help your solar node stay up.
Download my angle bracket .stl files here and print your own.
tinyurl.com/zx8r9byp

[@tech-rich]

Great video and an interesting project. I have similar style antennas and found bending them 90 degrees does affect their swr a lot vs straight. Might be worth experimenting with positions. All good fun.

[@TheOhioOutdoorsman1]

Great vid man. Very similar to my build with the same issues lol.
I am going to start posting about my build here soon but it is nice to see someone else on the same path with different ideas.

[@RobCanada]

Just as some feedback I built a RAK version a of this a few days after your first video (same light etc). So far mine hasn't dropped below 85%. I also only used one battery. Thanks for the update it's an interesting experiment.

[@mrpringlehead]

Which type of climate are you in? Lots of sun?

[@vladapetrovic5318]

Very useful, thanks for sharing this kind of techno stuff with us.😉

[@RCDUDEFPV]

Thumbs up and thanks for the print files

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Hey mate, if you want some cheap 18650's, get your hands on some "faulty" power tool battery packs, it's always 1 or 2 bad cells that take down the whole pack !
Ask your local HW store or some blokes at a building site.
It's also worth buying 10,000mah battery banks on special, if they're the cheap fat version they'll have 4 18650's inside 👍
I'm hoping the Rak WisBlock module gets cheaper soon because they're 10x better on standby power than these Heltecs.
This might be a stupid idea, but could you use a digital watch alarm to trigger a latching circuit from its piezo alarm ? One alarm at 10pm and another at 6 am to catch the dawn ??

[@USER-LlewisTLDB]

Remember your teletubbie land video I heard rumors. On Google and stuff The owner flooded the dome to turn the hill into a pond

[@Ploggy.]

awesome 🙂👍

[@sid35gb]

The obvious solution would be to move the solar panels south by about 2000 miles 😂 joking aside nice little project 👍

[@julesd]

Hey @knoxieman... Could you please fix the links on your loft PSU post... You linked to the heltec case twice. Thanks.
Loving the vids, btw. Keep the good work up!

[@Dogbreath1974]

Take that level back to Wickes and ask for a new bubble, £3 for each new buddle these days...clearly on the p155

[@chrissewell1608]

If you added more batteries or larger batteries, would that help? If they would even fit into your, fence light's, housing?

[@newtlab]

Hello, what model of multimeter do you have?

[@Farming-Technology]

Can't you just use the esp32 built in deepsleep and rtc to achieve the same thing?

[@losttapes1705]

Please fix the weather instead.

[@nxesr]

What is that? At first glance looks like an air filter of some sort with a solar panel.

[@chrissewell1608]

I looks like a small (LED) security light, w/ solar panel on top.

[@spueli118]

use RAK Component and your Problems are solved