A Guide to Traveling with Solar and Lithium Ion Batteries
Tips for Traveling with Solar One of the biggest questions we get from customers is regarding the safety of traveling with solar chargers and...
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Solar Charger for Particle Boron With Cat M-1
The Particle Boron is a new cellular modem for IoT. It is designed to consume less power than its predecessors, especially during data transmission....
Lithium Battery Policy By Airline
Lithium Battery Policy for Domestic and International Flights Can I bring my batteries on the plane? Lithium batteries are allowed on planes, but...
Measure the Daily Power Consumption of Your IoT Device
To run an IoT device from solar you need to know how much power the device daily consumes (energy budget) and how much power you can produce from...
Solar Chargers in Extreme Heat
How do Solar Chargers React to Heat? Just like your phone and other electronics, extreme temperatures can affect the performance of a solar charger....
Can Your Panel Charge My Battery Pack?
Maybe, but probably not that well. Charging battery packs from a solar panel isn't as straightforward as you think - even if the solar panel...
Water Quality Monitoring with Adafruit FONA and I/O
I paired up with Voltaic Systems to create a cellular, solar-powered water quality monitor. For phase one one of the project, I configured an...
Solar Bicycle Tracker Using Adafruit FONA
In this post, we show you how to build a solar-powered asset tracker for your bicycle or other important equipment using Adafruit FONA 808 and...
Solar Charger – Tutorial Part 4
How do you protect the battery? The goal of a charge circuit is to protect both the battery and your device. If you don't have charge protection,...
Portable Power for Trail Runners: Voltaic Powerbanks
Portable Power for Trail Runners Voltaic offers lightweight portable power for trail runners, no matter where the road takes you. When trail...
Make a Dynamo to Charge Your Phone
Voltaic System’s battery packs will take charge from solar panels, AC adapters, USB ports, even other battery packs. You can also charge them from kinetic power sources like hand-cranked or bike driven dynamos. Here’s how we did it.
Waterproof and Compact DIY Solar Backpack
Bart Zwiep, one of our customers from Holland, is headed to Kenya later this year for a charity bike trip organized by the Verkaart Development Team....
DIY Solar Charger for Ortlieb Bag
We love it when customers use our panels to design a system that fits their needs. A Dutch customer recently mod-ed his Ortlieb handlebar bag. He...
iPhones and iPads USB Pin Voltages – Update for iPhone 5
We continually make minor tweaks to the USB output of our batteries to make sure we charge as many devices as possible. We pay particular attention...
Three Ways to Power an Arduino Off-Grid
This post is out of date. Please head over to our updated Solar for Arduino guide for more information. We get a lot of...