Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Building a 300 / 200 watt dump load for a Solar Charge Controller


Some viewers wanted more information on the dump load that I use with the Solar Charge Controller described HERE. For a 12v 7 Ah battery I use a 12 volt car brake light bulb.  For  the 100 Ah battery I use the dump described by the backshed.com available HERE.   It works great and is easy to construct from scrap lying around.


Source:  Homegrown Power / thebackshed.com

Eskom Loadshedding Solutions - Raspberry Pi Router/Modem "Watchdog" Project: Testing Internet Connection (Part 3)

 Image:  ZS1I AllStar Hub, 145.550 Echolink Simplex Link and ZS-Link SVXLink Reflector With the recent loadshedding experienced I decided to...