Re: [Cerowrt-devel] solar wifi ap designs?

[Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>]

If you run the numbers for Nicaragua, you'll find that the solar
coverage is WAY better year round. (share the spreadsheet?) The
problem is the rainy season from late august through november, and I
was aiming for 3 days of battery life, with only 20% sun over those
days.

(yes, the whole bufferbloat project has always sort of been, for me,
about *eventually* having wifi routers you could drop off a truck (or
drone!), that would "just work" in the third world. I didn't do all
this just to solve first world problems!)

I have a new site to try out and IF I get my act together soon enough,
I hope to do a deployment down there before it starts to rain
overmuch. See: http://www.harmonia.life/ .
I might give wind a try, also.

I am heading down there next week or the one following to explore the
possibilities (and get some surfing in!).

Now that my new office space is coming along, I have space and tools
(cnc machine, etc), to try and build something that would work. I'd
always intended local manufacture of the edison batteries.....

AND: speaking of all that, if anyone's bored and wants to camp out for
a week or three, I have spare tent site reserved in los gatos... and
some space down in harmonia, also... and I'm happy to say, I, at
least, am having fun with all this, again, finally.