A picture paints a thousand words, so here are some photos of my current solar setup.
Panels
I run off these three panels:From top-to-bottom, that's the:
- 60W SunKingdom panel, with 9 panels, 1 USB output and 1 18V DC output (bought May 2019)
- A 20W KingSolar panel, with 4 panels and 2 USB outputs (bought May 2018)
- A 10W Opteka panel, with 3 panels and 2 USB outputs (bought June 2013)
Batteries and cables
Here's what I use to store the energy from the panels:This includes, cables from right-to-left then batteries from right-to-left:
- Charging cable for a Pebble smartwatch
- 3 Cabepow USB-to-micro-USB cables for general usage (actually I have a bunch more of these, but these get used daily)
- 1 Anker USB-to-USB-C cable for
- 1 USB-to-mini-USB cable for headphones
- 2 Portapow USB power monitors
- 1 really small, light battery for emergencies, like this one - around 2,500mAh
- 1 lightweight battery, an EasyAcc 10,000mAh
- 1 mediumweight battery, a Besiter Maya 20,000mAh
- 1 large battery, a Rleron 25,000mAh - the solar cells on the front are basically for show, but has micro-USB and USB-C charging ports
- 1 large battery, an Anker 26,800mAh - with dual micro-USB charging
Devices
The panels and batteries above support various USB-based devices I use, on a varying basis:Daily usage:
- Fairphone 2 mobile phone, for general use (bottom right)
- Red Pebble smartwatch, for telling the time, being able to leave my phone where I want to, and for being able to turn off noisy notifications (next to the Fairphone)
- Philips SHB9001 Bluetooth headphones, although they can drop back to wired audio for winter (top right)
- Lixada LED book lamp, for portable, low level evening light (bottom left)
- Amazon Kindle, for reading e-books - I do prefer real books, but this is handy (top left)
- 2 8BitDo controllers for general game control (top left)
- 1 Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP, for low-power retro-gaming (top)
- 1 WiFi extender which can plug straight into one of the USB batteries when needed (middle, top)
- 1 Bluetooth audio receiver (middle, right)
- 1 set of bike lights (middle, rear light not shown)
- 1 Apeman 4K camera (middle, bottom)
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