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0 pointsmbgerring27d ago0 comments

While I look for a new job working on clean energy hardware, I’m re-habbing a weatherproof 7kWh battery I built for a Burning Man project last year.

I’m adding:

- A control hub that reads data from the batteries and the solar controller

- Remote and on-device UIs that allow a user to control all the hardware from one place

- A LoRa transceiver that allows monitoring the battery and solar status from a distance

Exploring all of this is fun — there’s a lot of DIY solar and battery hardware out there that needs to be able to sync and coordinate, but there’s not a great software solution for this.

Hit me up if you want to hire me, or give me money to work on this :)

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defrost27d ago

FYI, if you haven't seen it: https://www.solarbatterywarehouse.com.au/solar-battery-shop/...

mbgerringOP27d ago

fwiw I’m in the US. I have seen a lot of things like this! I have a lot of opinions on this form factor, where it works well, and where it doesn’t.

defrost27d ago

It's blessed and cursed by being no more or less than exactly what it is; minimal amount neccessary bundled together on a double axle light trailer - draggable anywhere you can get a horse float to, ready to go.

Butt ugly unless you're deeply into the tradie steel frame equivalent of the Concrete Brutalism aesthetic.

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defrost27d ago

FYI, if you haven't seen it: https://www.solarbatterywarehouse.com.au/solar-battery-shop/...

mbgerringOP27d ago

fwiw I’m in the US. I have seen a lot of things like this! I have a lot of opinions on this form factor, where it works well, and where it doesn’t.

defrost27d ago

Butt ugly unless you're deeply into the tradie steel frame equivalent of the Concrete Brutalism aesthetic.

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