It sounds like you can connect with your phone, which reduces the energy footprint quite a bit.
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kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 4 days ago
Yeah, but won’t you need enough electricity to power a monitor, keyboard, and mouse for this to work?
5too@lemmy.world 4 days ago
MangoCats@feddit.it 4 days ago
A single rooftop solar panel can do that, and charge a battery for a little after dark use while you’re at it.
A true prepper will get an eInk monitor and resist the urge to scroll until they read all the way to the bottom of the page, but even a normal monitor uses a small fraction of a solar panel. Keyboard? Near zero. Mouse? Near zero x10 but still near zero when compared with 200W. RasPi? less than a normal monitor.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
That doesn’t take much power, a solar panel or two should be more than sufficient, or you can rig something up w/ a defunct ebike (just run the motor backwards to generate electricity).
MangoCats@feddit.it 4 days ago
If the monitor draws even 20W, you’re gonna be tired of that eBike generator solution really quick.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The average laptop is 65W. So the 40 amp solar battery station I built with a 100w panel could run a laptop 7 hours a day without any issues at all. Plenty of time to get actionable information out of it.
MangoCats@feddit.it 3 days ago
Sure, solar works. And batteries work - for about 3000 charge-discharge cycles.