Swiss Meshtastic User

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I use a bimetallic strip (as here Solar carry-around node)

and heat shield with node box facing north as in this build Solar node for top of tall building using the Waveshare D solar power manager

and good tips here too

Battery Paranoia

I’m in the process of constructing some solar nodes for my community but am very concerned about which batteries would be safe to use. It doesn’t take more than a few mouse clicks to find all sorts of horror stories about lithium batteries catching fire and/or exploding and the last thing I want to do is make a node that is going to potentially cause harm. I’m using Wisblock Raks, “5v” solar panels (realistically I’ve seen them up to 7v so I put a buck converter on them to make sure it stays a…