Wow, even with cloudcover and it being winter (less hours of sun and more atmosphere absorbing the energy of the light we do get), my #solar node went from completely dead to 6%.

I'm not sure if it died overnight, but it was still on at midnight, which is far better than I expected.

I'm not sure how replicable it'll be since I hand made the solar panel and battery pack, but I'll share what I've learned.

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Right now the main lessons learned are:

- Pay close attention to the RAK wisblock parts!

- Ditto for power connectors (JST 1.5/2/2.54)

- The pins on the JST connectors may be backwards from one supplier to another

- Don't order a battery-only MPPT board