This Web site is not Photo voltaic Powered… For Now
This Web site Is No Longer Photo voltaic Powered (for now…)
28 January 2023
Been some time since I wrote something on right here and the reasoning really has little to do with the subject material: I’ve simply been busy/slack/distracted, no matter you care to throw a dart at, it would hit a goal.
Anyway, I made this post again in September 2021. All was trucking alongside effective till only a few months in the past from the time of this writing, when at some point I realised I not had the Raspberry Pi responding to pings and properly, no web entry both.
Upon investigation, no this was no energy loss or lack of solar… the little Netgear AC800s modem had blown up. No, not figuratively, LITERALLY.
Photographs converse for themselves…
So sure, lesson realized, lithium-ion batteries do certainly go increase generally. I used to be really conscious this might occur and technically should not have left the battery within the gadget whereas it was hooked as much as energy continuously… however the factor is, the gadget was by no means secure until it was plugged into each USB energy and had it is battery inserted. Exterior energy was by no means fairly sufficient, with sufficient exercise the factor was liable to randomly reboot.
Anyway, in order that’s that. Remarkably, solely the modem and some surrounding cables have been destroyed. The photo voltaic cost controller and the Raspberry Pi have been, remarkably, unhurt, if not carrying a little bit of spare black soot on their surfaces. The place to from right here? Properly, my web state of affairs is kind of totally different now. I’ve Starlink and not the previous satellite tv for pc broadband now, as a main web connection, so the Optus 4G connection was changing into a bit superfluous anyway (apart from when the facility goes out at residence, clearly). However with Optus’ data breach scandal and what not, I wasn’t going to be working again to them both.
So, for now, I’ve no photo voltaic powered web connection but when one thing low cost and cheerful comes alongside I might be tempted to set it up once more (this time a mini modem/router that does not require a continuously inserted battery to perform correctly).
How is that this web site working proper now, you would possibly ask? Simple, I took the Raspberry Pi again inside my residence and hooked it as much as the web there. The RPi does want a brand new SD card although, as it has been failing for some time now, so I’ll seemingly shift this web site to my Vultr VPS, however that is the fantastic thing about a light-weight static web site – can transfer it round willy nilly, no downside in any respect!