Off Grid Solar System at Home

I have rigged up my old motorcycle battery into an off grid solar system.  It is just an elaborated power bank.  The battery is 10Ah, that means 120Wh, except being a older lead acid battery, it is probably half of that, 60Wh, when lithum power bank is supposedly 150Wh.

But this of grid system is capable to charge at 12V, where as the power bank can only do 5V devices.  I am sure it has its own purposes.

Ebay Live

I have sat through the mall auctions in the 1990s, where they are selling random stuffs auction style, including my seatbelt cover that I still use today.

They are trying to bring it back on Ebay Live.  But since they usually do it in their little shop or warehouse, without real customer in vicinity, they have less showmanship, they are quite painful to watch to be honest, it is all about shifting goods.

Cheap Portable Panel

I have bought a cheap portable solar panel, and it arrived on the cloudy days.  We finally got some sun, and it does charge devices.  Where I could get a spare battery to use it as a flow.  

I am still waiting for an adaptor to see if it can charge the portable battery.

Standby Power

The power station has been pretty good, but it is not particularly portable, but all the small ones have very small inverter, so they are just big power bank for USB outputs.

Power Up II

This time, we get two hours for the Power Up.  We revised the plan and stuck mostly to the plan.  We managed to use 9kWh from the grid, we would gave used more from the grid if it wasn't so sunny outside.

It was hard work for that £2.

Compost Shopping

We went to two local garden centres and two chain establishments, we ended up getting it from a chained store.  We did buy some seeds and bulbs from the local shops.  Let see how they fare next spring.

Miller and Carter Lunch

The last time I had lunch at Miller and Carter was with Angela in Manchester.  This time we tried the Garforth branch.  The food was very tasty and well seasoned, but I think it threw my electrolyte off balance...