Charging-station using micro solar panel!
The fountain success (previous post) led me to rig up a little charging-station inside the sea-grape arbor, with the mini solar panel.
I had never put the panel up there on the roof of the sea-grape arbor before, or thought to make a little charging-station.
But when the fountain pump stopped, I realized the generator needed to be recharged and voilà it occurred to me to just try to charge it right here. (Usually I charge it out at the solar-oven platform by the sidewalk.)
As an unexpected bonus, by Murphy’s law, since I was wanting sun for the recharge, the sky clouded up and it just now started sprinkling. That’s actually fine with me, I’ll be happy to take a few clouds and raindrops — there will always be more sun later to recharge the generator!
Instant rooftoop micro solar!! Photos here.
That’s the great thing about deciding to turn one’s house into a permaculture guild headquarters and low-footprint-living laboratory: New possibilities always just pop up around the corner of every moment. That’s how our human minds work, when we can manage to allow ourselves to get out in nature and let ourselves be creative in the flow.
*Update: My solar panel charging experiment yesterday, using the roof of the sea-grape arbor, didn’t work; no matter how i tried tweaking the position it never got up much wattage. Now I’ve stuck it in the middle of the sidewalk and am keeping an eye out to avoid inconveniencing people who need the sidewalk to get from point A to point B.