Ulrich

This is actually the intended usecase of LoRa. Imagine you’re a farmer or other similar industry with a large plot of land. You want to monitor moisture level of the soil or water level in a storage tank or something similarly simple. You can do this over long distances without any sort of cellular or other connectivity.

I reported it to ebay.

Yeah, good luck with that, eBay has just become another Amazon/Walmart/AliExpress/TaoBao/AliBaba/Temu/Shein drop-shipped Chinese e-waste storefront. This kind of shit is their bread and butter.

It’s not dangerous, you’ll just instantly pop the fuse. Most likely the power rating is just a blatant lie, much like the cornucopia of Chinese flashlights on Amazon rated at 2,000,000 lumens.

Wrote a review where? LOL

Yeah this is what we used to do before solar generators. And I still advocate for it because they’re still far simpler and far easier to diagnose and repair.

Any of these components goes out in a solar generator and the whole thing is garbage. Any component in this system fails and you swap just that component and leave the rest.

This is really going to be highly-dependent on the regulations of your apartment. If you ask them they’ll probably just say no to everything so you’ll have to comb through the docs and see what’s allowed. Even then it’s likely they’ll hit you with a violation regardless, even if technically allowed, and if you don’t pay, collection, meaning you’ll have to take them to court and prove it doesn’t violate any rules. That’s a whole lot of risk.

I would avoid any of those “solar generators” for cost reasons. These are expensive components and you want them to be modular so you can replace individual components rather than entire systems.

Will prowse does a “solar milk crate” design here. I would probably try to emulate that but with newer components. I think the “wattcycle” is probably your best bet for battery and Giandel still makes great inverters of various sizes.

Run the panel wires through wherever your window A/C unit is and keep all the components indoors.

A/C is going to be one of the top consumers of energy so you’d probably only get like 1 hour of power/day on a hot day. Better to connect your modem, router, and maybe a small fridge (also a large consumer).