A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.
I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things as well.
Yes. I’m mainly looking for options for the charge controller and batteries part. (Preferably good, reliable and cost-effective.) I already found a solar panel, and I don’t necessarily need an inverter and 230V AC. I think something like 12V would be fine for some applications, if I got battery monitoring and over-discharge prevention.
Are those already in mass production and available to random customers? All I can find are a lot of recent news articles, very few manufacturers and very pricey batteries.
Thanks for doing the maths. I would have also have guessed it’s due to the short distance these amps have to travel. And in practice, we’d likely be using just the thicker parts at the top of the legs and clip most of them off, so it’d be way less than the almost 15mm in your numbers. Still probably an issue with the thickness of the pcb traces, but that’s something the designer has to worry about.
Thanks. That is a good read.