Recent content by MangoCat

Something people repeatedly miss when bragging about "free power" they get from solar charging of their power banks is: cycle life and cost of their batteries. If your 1kWh battery pack costs,$500 and it has 3000 useful cycles in its life, that's $0.16 per kWh over the life of the battery. I...

I have a smaller Anker battery+inverter, it's a nice piece of kit to power devices in parts of our (large) yard that don't have electric service. However, pay attention to the battery cycle lifetime spec: ours says 3000 cycles. At that rate, even charging the battery "for free" from solar...

I have had a series of i5 Intel NUCs over the past 10+ years, each a great PC when new, each eventually packing dust into the cooling fan until it dies, usually about 4 years later. Trying a N5105 fanless Celeron now, more powerful than a Raspberry Pi and still fanless. So far so good in...