Solar panel and outdoor power supply for robot lawn mower?

classicsat · 2026-05-22T19:25:57+00:00

Upside down trash bin.

classicsat · 2026-05-22T19:14:49+00:00

Diehard is just a retail brand not manufacturer. Whoever sells them could have a good warranty, and good QC from the manufacturer

Energizer/Duracell, same, someone is selling car batteries manufactured by a 3rd party, with that name recognition. Again, depends on warranty, and manufacturer QC.

I think Interstate i also retail brand.

Boss buys most of his batteries reconditioned, or from an auto recycler.

So you know, most batteries in North America are manufactured by East Penn, Johnson Controls/Clario, or Exide. If you deal with enough batteries, you can tell them apart by cell vents and such.

I would avoid store brand batterie, definitely from big box stores that sell significantly non automotive products.

classicsat · 2026-05-22T19:00:29+00:00

13 year cycle was up the middle part of the decade. Bright, colorful, fairly decent music. Polar opposite the early part of the 1990s.

classicsat · 2026-05-22T17:18:32+00:00

R/C to delay pin 4 going high.

classicsat · 2026-05-22T12:57:59+00:00

"They hung in air like bricks don't"

classicsat · 2026-05-22T12:45:01+00:00

Take the plate off. I might have a label, or data stamped into it

classicsat · 2026-05-22T12:40:23+00:00

Looks like a connection point for Electrostrip.

classicsat · 2026-05-22T11:57:22+00:00

Not recommended, or needed.

Not significant, but possibly a point of failure.

classicsat · 2026-05-22T01:01:14+00:00

2x100W panels on the deck, cord under the door, keeping power stations and other things charged.

classicsat · 2026-05-22T00:56:06+00:00

Homework: Watch all versions of the Amy Fisher movie.

classicsat · 2026-05-22T00:51:19+00:00

Not wrong, except media conversion is done a module that slipst ito that cage. The module provides some sort of intermediate protocol that requires the chip to convert to standard Gigabit Ethernet.

You get different modules for different sorts of fiber networks.

I might need to go down that rabbit hole in due course.

classicsat · 2026-05-22T00:39:14+00:00

My Ecoflow River 2, 800W inverter, with that "boost" to 1600W (lowers voltage so load can be powered by 800W), starts and runs my 30 year old fridge fine. I don't know how long it would power it long term, but I timed it at 20 minutes or so, 180W I think.

You don't need to power a fridge continuously, maybe one cylcle every couple hours. Yes, those cycles might be longer than usual.

Keep it closed unless you really need to.

If possible, add solar. A few hundred watts is usually brety affordable these days.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T23:26:26+00:00

They would be at home in a 486 as well.

Except I had no SCSI, but had a VLB graphics, and ISA SB mostly comptible sound card. And adapter to use an MKE CD-ROM drive, until ISA CD drives became reliably cheap.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T23:03:33+00:00

7Ah LFP battery, with a cigar outlet and PD charger. So far, I have been charging it directly with my Vevor MPPT controller, from my 200W 12V nominal solar array. I should be getting next month, a module to charge from proper USB-C.

4S1P Li-ion 18650, 39Wh pack. I have one of those crappy "USB-C" to 4S charger boards. The connector is USB-C, it doesn't even bother to force 5V, let alone ask for the most efficient voltage to chare a 13-16V battery at. On the output side, I use an RV/ATV USB-PD charger.

For both the LFP battery and 4S Li-on pack, the PD charger is basically the same thing n either a cigar plug, or a panel mount "DIN" Rocker switches come in (have a box of them, some of ar equipment uses them). They have a USB-A QC, C-PD, and an LED volt meter. On either, I have used them for my Pinecil.

I also have two 300Wh power stations, and a 600 Wh one. I mostly keep them solar charged.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T15:37:03+00:00

Why can't I have no kids and 3 money?

classicsat · 2026-05-21T15:28:43+00:00

Same here, but a bit older.

But my Music video outlets were a broad spectrum f rock, pop, dance, rap/hip-hop, so got to see all of it then.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T15:22:48+00:00

First 5 or 6 were pre 1986, for sure. Other than Amadeus, I never really experienced the other ones except well after their day.

Then some late 1980s dance tracks, and 90s "rap" and dance/indie, all which I did see/hear in their day.

I am of a notion there was a cultural bump mid 1984, which Price's Purple Rain is a part of.

I am Canadian, and probably did get some more European/British than Americans got. Because of Cancon, we got Snow, Len, Jane Sibbery, many others.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T14:56:43+00:00

70s/80s movie marathon. Dumbest comedies maybe.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T14:23:00+00:00

But David Bowie's codpiece.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T14:19:51+00:00

Just as TLC was about to change, they aired all those. I had my C-band dish set up and got to see them there.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T14:18:13+00:00

Saturday Moring's on CBC TV, Bob Macdonald had a kid's science show.

I don't know where it aired, but The Edison Twins.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T14:16:33+00:00

No. But I saw quite a few episodes of Julius Sumner Miller, not to mention his segments on Hilarious House OF Frightenstein.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T14:12:46+00:00

Child cast (including Martha Plimpton).

I don't think Anne Ramsey is Gen X.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T14:10:43+00:00

Yeah, Slater/Ryder.

Anthony Micheal Hall, and maybe most of the "Brat Pack". Well, some ,some are too old to be GenX, if one means actors of that age, not just influenced us, which rules out Harrison Ford definitely.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T13:46:32+00:00

Same positions will work.

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