USB PD adapter: https://amzn.eu/d/hGJWITe (this is a bit loose in the Jackery 12 V socket, so there are probably much better ones out there)
Car: Toyota Proace City Verso Team Deutschland = Citroën Berlingo = Peugeot Partner Teepee
The node uses 5% of the 240 Wh capacity of the Jackery power supply in 8 hrs. I will charge the Jackery power supply via its input using a solar panel under the sun-roof, and the system should be able to be an autonomous solar for a long time, with charging from the car 12 V supply if needed.
nice car, and nice equipment…
did you think about using a smaller rak node as a mobile device in the car, (with some weeks of batttery runtime!) and maybe use the station G2 as a stationary router node in some higher psotion with good antenna placement ?
Hi. Yes. I have a 2nd G2 under the eves of my house and it runs fantastically well providing direct contact over a radius of about at least 2km. This 2nd one is in the car now to test the range between the two nodes. I did not want to have the node running on the car power any more because when I park I cannot test with the engine off. I have a RAK (solar node in the making - still testing the ability of it to restart after brownout with the Waveshare D solar battery management board, but the test is slow - still running… surprisingly tricky to simulate using a lamp) and indeed it runs for about 5 days on a 81650 3300 mAh battery, so this battery would indeed run that for about 100 days… In the car is also a T-beam plugged into the dash USB - which runs for about 10 mins after the car stops and then shuts down (the car does that automatically) and is a handy GPS tracking of the car. I was really wondering how to make a better antenna. I would like have the antenna on the roof. That would be nice.
Get this. The Jackery 240 power bank switches off automatically after 10 or 12 hours when it has a low power draw, like in this case. It is simply incredible - the strange behaviour of electronic devices. Why should one not be able to run this uninterrupted for as long as one whats? Geez. Nothing is simple. This will need a manual restart every 10 or 12 hours. Unbelievable… Jackery says here Reddit - Dive into anything that this is not an issue with their other devices / latest version… oh great, nice to know.
no, it’s because SMAs aren’t intended to stand up to weather and wind loads like that found on a car roof. And no cheap chinese SMA antenna like a GIZONT!!OMG!! is built for that either. An NMO mount (provided it’s a brand like Motorola or Larsen) is designed and proven to be watertight and strong enough for that use.
This post is about the one that came with the Station G2 was always inside the car, just under the glass sunroof, and I got a 50 km confirmed message with that, as shown above.
(My external antenna on the roof is this antenna: Sirio - SKA 901 C | K-PO in the in the magnetic mount of this one Sirio - SKA 900 1/4 MAG | K-PO . They were made in Italy apparently. They seemed rugged to me. )
