Re:This website is solar powered and running on a Raspberry Pi
by pearjuice on Friday April 14, 2023 @05:08PM
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I wonder if putting extensive load on the server could drain the battery in enough time before the sun comes up?
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Re:This website is solar powered and running on a Raspberry Pi
by m4jor on Friday April 14, 2023 @05:15PM
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The Stats page has a Battery metric on it. Currently sitting at 82%.
It has a "144 watt-hour battery" which looks like thats about 38,918.92mAh.
Certainly would take a lot it seems to drain it to 0% before the sun came up.
Re:This website is solar powered and running on a Raspberry Pi
by satoshiiii on Friday April 14, 2023 @05:42PM
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> Certainly would take a lot it seems to drain it to 0% before the sun came up.
It depends.
Different types of batteries have different recommended levels of discharge. Acid batteries should not be discharged more than 50%, while lithium batteries can be discharged up to 80-90%. The Blue Ion 2.0 lithium battery is the best one available, as it can be discharged up to 100%.
Re:This website is solar powered and running on a Raspberry Pi
by jovial_cavalier on Friday April 14, 2023 @05:13PM
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I think we will soon find out.
Re:This website is solar powered and running on a Raspberry Pi
by tppiotrowski on Friday April 14, 2023 @05:51PM
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The extreme power consumption of a RaspberryPI 4 is about 7W [1]. The battery is 144Wh. If battery can discharge 100% that's about 20 hours and about 10 hours for 50% discharge. This all assumes the CPU is pegged at 100% and it's not an older model which consumes less power.
I guess it could be possible.
[1] - https://www.pidramble.com/wiki/benchmarks/power-consumption
Re:This website is solar powered and running on a Raspberry Pi
by Schroedingersat on Friday April 14, 2023 @09:31PM
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If you put any effort into power optimization you can get an r-pi under 2W at fairly high CPU load. r-pi like could also be one of the much more efficient single board computers that run under 1W