Recent content by pbw

Shortest day, at least according to that site, has10h26m of daylight. 'Good' sun hours would, I suppose, be something like 7. Winter is usually good for sunlight in Brisbane. So that would be around 2100mAh of recharge on a "normal" shortest day with that panel. Thanks for the confirmation.

I'm looking at a small panel like this one: or maybe the 10 watt equivalent, depending on what sort of load I end up calculating. So far, it's not very great. As to sun, is you go to this site, and load the json file I have attached (to which I have added a .txt extension for uploading - just...

Thanks to everyone who replied. I'm overwhelmed by the responses, and I'll have to work my way through them. I have one lot of "wire lights", which I think might be what you call "seed lights". Here's the arbour. The crown of stars was made from a string of 100 "wire lights" like so. and I...

Yes, I am. See my reply to TerryK.

Sorry it's taken me so long to reply. (Is it possible to get an email reminder when someone responds to a post?) What I've been thinking about is running everything off a 12v battery. There are cheap solar controllers that are designed to charge 12V batteries, with "street light" control, like...

Hi. Peter here. Nothing ambitious from me. A number of us have added solar powered lights to the garden and the Marian arbour at St James Catholic Church, Coorparoo. I'm here looking for information about extending the display time of some of those displays.