Solar MeshAP 8 days of Operation

In the last week I have 8 days of operation. The temperature was in the high teen and low 20’s. I had sunshine for almost every day except for day 7 and 8. Temperature also went down to 5 degrees. On the 8 day the panel did not have enough efficiency to run the wireless mesh node and charge the battery. I can see that 7/24 solution did work however I can see that additional solar panel is required. Each panel gives me 30 W at 2 amps. Three were used in the experiment and I am adding a forth. That will give 120W at 8 amps. It should be noted that efficiency of the panels are still not optimized and that I not getting the full potential of the Solar array. I will need to angle the solar array to meet the sun’s angles.

From my earlier work last year I noticed that Toronto can get a whole week with out sunshine and that a few batteries will be required. I will also see if I can purchase some deep cycle batteries and controllers. Dual batteries are required to continue operations. I noticed that on sunny days that the batteries only take about 4 -6 hours to fully recharge. This is great news.

Last week I verified in WIANA that the operation was continuous. I noticed that during the middle of the day I had a crash of the system. I believe Locustworld’s Crash Guard system rebooted the Solar MeshAP.