{"id":22220,"date":"2022-03-29T16:14:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T23:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=22220"},"modified":"2022-03-29T16:20:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T23:20:31","slug":"mar-29-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2022\/03\/29\/mar-29-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar 29 Perseverance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Walter Elliot<\/strong><\/p>\n

My new power panel is mounted and powered up. I am working on my laptop, which is charging, and my tablet is charging. It has taken a long time to get here.<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago, I starved a bit and purchased a laptop. I am on solar power and the inverter and laptop chewed up a lot of power. A year later, I starved a bit and bought a tablet. The tablet saved a huge amount of power. I was able to run all day using the internal battery and solar power.<\/p>\n

I missed using the laptop, but in winter with short days or extended cloudy days, it was not possible. Even using the tablet was putting a strain on the solar battery bank. Next, I gathered all the laptop batteries in the house. I had a few because I used to have a computer store. I broke apart the casing and extracted the 18650 batteries inside.<\/p>\n

I had to learn how to deal with those, they needed testing and recording the values. I did that. It took weeks.<\/p>\n

Next, I bought a battery bank shell on Amazon. It was cheap, I made a 30000 MAH battery bank. I could run my tablet for two days.<\/p>\n

I still missed using my laptop. I surmised that the inverter was responsible for the huge amount of power lost. 115 volts AC converted to 19 volts DC was costing a lot of energy. <\/p>\n

My next purchase was a 12-volt adapter for my laptop. This worked well, converting 12v to 19v was way more efficient. Even on dark days, I could run the laptop a lot longer.<\/p>\n

I realized that sitting in my office chair was causing more health problems, possible DVT’s which can be fatal. I needed to work while sitting in bed.<\/p>\n

Next, purchase a laptop table for my bed. That worked okay, but my broken back couldn’t handle the pillows I had. I purchased a husband pillow made for sitting up in bed.<\/p>\n

That finally arrived, onto the next problem. My 12v port was too far away from the bed. So I found a 12v panel on Amazon. Yesterday I finally got that mounted and wired.<\/p>\n

Today I am typing this on my laptop. In 27 minutes, My laptop and tablet will be fully charged, and I will still have power in my battery bank. It is a dark day as far as solar goes. I managed to do a little design work on my laptop while I was watching another episode of a forensic crime drama series.<\/p>\n

This accomplishment took years.<\/p>\n

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