meowni

Put in a solar panel system for a water heater for the pond fish over winter. (Orange jackery battery was for testing) Specs:

- 12V 10Amp lifepo4 battery (for safety, they don't catch fire, and for environmental reasons, 10Amps is small and these can do 5-10x the cycles of other batteries)
- Some $20 solar controller
- A 200 watt modified sine wave inverter I got used
- A 50 watt fish tank heater someone donated to me

Nov 9, 2022 at 7:50pmWeb
Show threadmeowniNov 9, 2022
To do:
- lift the solar panel and adjust angle to squeeze as much energy gain I can out of it, also maybe move it back
- put in a timer to distribute heat throughout the night instead of killing the battery in 2 hours
Show threadmeowniNov 9, 2022
also this is only necessary because I suck at pond design and made it too shallow 😓