This is a $49 Home Depot special lamp. On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 3:55 PM Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
