While I look for a new job working on clean energy hardware, I’m re-habbing a weatherproof 7kWh battery I built for a Burning Man project last year.
I’m adding:
- A control hub that reads data from the batteries and the solar controller
- Remote and on-device UIs that allow a user to control all the hardware from one place
- A LoRa transceiver that allows monitoring the battery and solar status from a distance
Exploring all of this is fun — there’s a lot of DIY solar and battery hardware out there that needs to be able to sync and coordinate, but there’s not a great software solution for this.
Hit me up if you want to hire me, or give me money to work on this :)
FYI, if you haven't seen it: https://www.solarbatterywarehouse.com.au/solar-battery-shop/...
fwiw I’m in the US. I have seen a lot of things like this! I have a lot of opinions on this form factor, where it works well, and where it doesn’t.
It's blessed and cursed by being no more or less than exactly what it is; minimal amount neccessary bundled together on a double axle light trailer - draggable anywhere you can get a horse float to, ready to go.
Butt ugly unless you're deeply into the tradie steel frame equivalent of the Concrete Brutalism aesthetic.