Admiral Patrick @ ptz @dubvee.org

I'm surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

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Something like that, but closer to 45 to 65 watts and capable of 20v. There's one I saw a while back (can't find it now), but it's up to 100W PD and uses MC4 connectors straight to the panel. It was...expensive.

This is what I'm currently looking at (and it lists the voltages unlike the other ones that came up in search results). Only problem with this one is reviews say it defaults to "off" and you have to press the button to turn it on. Not ideal when it's going to be hooked to a PV panel.

Looks like revision 2 of the PD spec requires all of those voltages, but in revision 1 it doesn't require 20v. And if they're not listing the voltages, they're prob not listing the PD spec revision it adheres to.

RavPower was my jam before they got booted from Amazon, but yeah, I stick to Ankler for the most part (unless I just need a dumb power bank to dump solar into that'll charge my better power banks - e.g. the 50,000 mAh behemoth I've got charging outside right now).

The reason I had to stray here is because I'm looking for a 12v -> USB PD adapter I can hook to a 12V solar panel. Not the "cigarette lighter" kind, but the kind you hard wire. No-name is about all you can really buy unless I want to crack open an Ankler or fuss with a cigarette lighter-style adapter (those are a PITA sometimes lol).

Yeah, I get the "SEO" aspect of it, but they could at least include the actual specs somewhere.

Should be, but not all of them support 20V. I'm less concerned with the wattage (I usually buy a minimum of 20W) since my laptop is designed for 45W but is smart enough to throttle and not charge the battery if supplied with less. I've tested it down to 20W (which the BIOS warned me about) and it works about the same as when it's in "Battery saver" mode. However, if I put it to sleep or power it down, it'll charge from 20W just fine.

Will the real suckers and losers, please stand up?

Or at least would the real suckers and losers please shut up? They're always the loudest and dumbest in any space, and it's as if they stopped talking for even a second, they might actually have a critical thought (and that terrifies them).

Yep. It's for an outdoor weather node on a metal pole, so damage would be fairly minimal if it had a bad day. It's also only charging at like 200 mAh (max) since it's got only a small 1W solar panel hooked to the charge controller. The only other concern would be summertime temperature, but I worry about that regardless of the cell.

Yeah, and my newer powerbanks all do PowerDelivery for 5, 9, 12, and 20 V.

I'm assuming watt-hours would be universal for them all (watts are watts, as the saying goes).

I may be re-thinking my morals for things like that here soon. My legitimate career relies heavily on federal grant money, and my skills aren't rare enough to hope France will adopt me. Maybe I'll start a meme coin or something lol.

That's true, but this one came from a known (local) vendor. I took it back, and they were happy to refund it. Since they were gonna toss it, I asked if I could keep it (it works well enough to power an ESP32).

I've thought about selling out my morals, but realized I could never live with myself.

I guess they could still lie about watt-hours, but buying anything based off of the reported mAh capacity is a crapshoot.

Ended up with a clearly fake 18650 in my collection. Weighs way less than an older 2200 mAh one but it's label says 9900 mAh. Again, it's an 18650.

The culprit:

Not discounting that (it's a cool project), but NOAA/NWS are the ones that issue the EAS severe weather alerts (when your phone/TV/radio goes all REEET REEEEET REEEET letting you know shit's getting real). Some severe weather you can plan for based on forecast (snow storms, some thunderstorms), others you need constant eyes on and as much warning as possible (tornadoes).

And tornado season is coming up, so....yeah, buckle up, Midwest.

Edit: Also, I feel your username lol.

Yes they do.

Edit: As others have said, Puerto Rico is a US territory rather than a state, and they don't have representation in Congress, but in all other aspects (and as far as "papers, please" goes), they are 100% US citizens.

Not sure if you saw my edit since it was after you replied, but you might want to edit the post to change the .'s in the URL to [dot] so it doesn't linkify a likely malware link for other users.

That looks like the site got hacked and wants you to run malware.

Also, you might want to edit the link to change the .s in the URL to [dot] so it doesn't linkify a likely malware link for other users.

Only if you're rich and/or a racist with power.

I'm the Tesseract UI dev, and I just released version 4.1 today: https://dubvee.org/post/3069664

Am I missing something? This is categorized as a Satire site: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/mcsweeneys-internet-tendency/

😁 Wherever I goddamned like! 😁

The first time I saw that, I just about spit out my drink. Hands down, that's the best non sci-fi moment of the entire series.

They're just something very ASMR about how Chrissy says "proto-molecule"