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Notes on solar powered wx

[Today’s run: nothing.  Saturday 2 miles  Sunday 1 mile]

We have had a few days of cloudy skies and it is approaching the winter solstice.

That means less light during the day to charge up the batteries in my solar powered weather station.

I have modified the status page to show the current battery voltage, and things are not looking very good.  Tonight as the sun went down we were already under 12 volts.

I don’t know if we will make it until morning.

The weather unit will run down to 5 volts, maybe lower.  The BeagleBone computer probably will die before that. When the battery charges up, I think it should all restart.  It is hard to know.

We may find out!

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