Pinebook Solar charging
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Hello, I am pretty new here.
I got my Pinebook a few weeks ago and everything seems fine except a few flaws which are not as important to me for now.

Whats actually a great thing about the Pinebook is its battery-life...
I highly recommend buying the USB-to-Power Cord along with your Pinebook.

Now to my experiment. I challenged the Pinebook to LIVE WITHOUT A POWER OUTLET FOR TWO WEEKS.
And it went very well with my setup which is pretty low-end.
  • Pinebook with USB powercord
  • 700mWh Powermonkey Powerbar
  • and a Solar Panel from Solarmonkey which has the same size as two large smartphones
   

So i tried working*/browsing with my Pinebook all (sunny) day while i let the powerbank charge, and if i needed power is would just plug it into the powerbank.
(If you plug it directly into the Solar panel it will only "slowly discharge")
If the weather really was bad (cloudy weather works) you could still work practically 24/7 for one day.
If you have a good weather condition and load the powerbank to full charge, you can work almost 2 days without sun.
The Pinebook is pretty happy with 4.3V for charging it seems.

*Sys- and Network-admin Stuff; Light Programming

tl;dr
So if you actually want to live off the grid for a few days or just wondered if you should buy a powerbank and/or a solar-panel for your Pinebook (and other Devices).
YES TOTTALLY DO IT, it works great. if you have a better/larger Solar Panel you could probably charge this thing.
Hello FBI,
I am not an actual hacker.


Messages In This Thread
Pinebook Solar charging - by Soul_Hacker - 08-23-2017, 07:58 AM
RE: Pinebook Solar charging - by Luke - 08-23-2017, 09:08 AM
RE: Pinebook Solar charging - by Soul_Hacker - 08-24-2017, 04:02 AM

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