What Preps are you doing this week? Part 13

[Peter]

Our only south facing roof is the garden shed two 120w panels on there, can’t be seen from the street.

[pseudonym]

Post by pseudonym » Thu Mar 06, 2025 6:15 pm

Jackery solar panel connectors, extension cables and 3x200watt collapsible solar panels on their way.

After making an error in not getting proprietary panels I have four redundant panels taking up space

After 1 year, I revisited this mistake I thought I'd made

Turns out I was wrong, I blame the brain fog .

Just connected 2 of the panels and we have power.

Ground mounted and not the best angles for optimum sunlight but 350 w into a 99% charged powerbank is not to be sniffed at

Happy Pseudonym.

so you don't need proprietary panels and peripheral kit with a Jackery?

No Itsy, as long as the panels are within Jackery's specs and you get the correct adaptor.

I have 2 x 100w panels powering my 1000w powerstation and 2 x 413w panels for my 12 KWh one.

I use these adaptors:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/CERRXIAN-Conne ... 4WCR&psc=1

and these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SinLoon-Adapte ... X5YP&psc=1

HTH

[GeraldTheBonzai]

Did a test runs to see how long it takes to recharge my Aferiy to 90% from 50%, looking for anything that gets warm etc. Also did some experiments recharging stuff from the ecoworthy without the panels connected. Want to get some idea as to what needs to be charged when and in what order, should we have an outage