Just way oversize your solar panel and battery pack.
How big a light are you looking to run? A 35ah wheelchair battery will run an
LED for a long time. You don't have to mount the battery and solar panel right
next to each other and neither of those needs to be near the light...
-Curt
On Friday, August 28, 2020, 3:48:24 PM EDT, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Thanks for all the input. Turns out that all my candidate mounting points
were high shaded. I may have to move.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 1:23 PM G Mann via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
> Simple, don't drive a stake in a shade area.. the sun obstruction will be
> obvious.
> The stakes with the shortest shade will have the most direct sun angle...
> long shade means you are in a low sun angle, not good for absorbing UV to
> make electric..
>
> Think, sun dial... when the sun is at high noon... directly overhead... how
> long is the sundial shadow?
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 9:59 AM Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 22:18:02 -0700 G Mann via Mercedes
> > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Go to Home Depot or any hardware store.
> > > Buy a bundle of 2 ft long grade stakes.
> > > Drive a grade stake in each location you think you want to mount the
> > > solar panel.
> > > Starting at sunrise.
> > > Every two hours, measure the shadow length of the grade stake, and the
> > > angle.
> > > Enter the reading on a notepad for use later using a pictograph drawing
> > > for each stake.
> > > At sunset, compare the day's readings.
> > >
> > > The path with greatest sun exposure will have the shortest shadows.
> >
> > I'm not sure this will work, Grant. If a stake is in shade, it will have
> > no shadow. Perhaps you mean the stake with the largest sum of shadow
> > lengths?
> >
> > I still think printing something like the graph I attached to my last
> > email on a transparency (without the background blue and green) is the
> > easiest. You simply walk around and immediately determine -- for the
> > whole year -- what will be obstructing the sun at each location.
> >
> >
> > Craig
> >
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