• Uranium3006@kbin.social
    4·
    11 months ago

    If you want to use more solar power but can’t put up panels, get a power strip and a light timer and setit to be on from 8 AM to 4 PM and off otherwise and see what you can do with it. I use it to charge ebike batteries and I’ve found that if you don’t ride every day it works well enough that I still always have a full charge when I ride

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      5·
      11 months ago

      I had an ebike for a month and it cost almost nothing to recharge, so this would be a really good fit for home solar as you mention.

      Miss that thing a lot, it made going out even for mundane things or just even exploring so fun. Now i’m back to my manual bicycle 😢 still fun but much more tiring lol

        • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          4·
          11 months ago

          My apologies - it was a free one provided by my local government for a month. We previously had a docked ebike system, but it went bankrupt due to vandalism… The replacement system put in place was to give people the ebikes directly, which worked much better

          • logir@feddit.it
            2·
            11 months ago

            Where do you live? Government giving ebikes for free sounds crazy for me, that I live in Italy

    • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.ee
      2·
      11 months ago

      …I’ve read your sentence three times- what do you you mean by power strip and light timer? how do you charge your ebike battery with this?