Pinebook Solar charging
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Good first post I must say. You may just be the first person to try use the PB in a truly novel way (and post about it); that's kind of the purpose of this device - a mobile platform to mod, hack and experiment with rather than an alternative to much more powerful x86 laptops. 

As for your post. Depending on the usage scenario (what you do with it and how frequently you do it) and how much sun you get where you live, I can see the PB going for longer than 2 weeks while powered / topped-up by solar panels. 

I use my 11" strictly for work (filling in forms, online reports and assessment related to my vocation) once every 2 days or so for a period of ~2hrs at a time. Below you'll find a graph depicting battery usage over the past 7days:

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The standby time for this thing is really quite amazing - more akin to a tablet (as you'd expect) than a traditional laptop. I known nothing about solar panels, put perhaps a mod that would cover the lid with those small and flexible solar panels could be a next step in your experiment Smile
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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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