{"id":3965,"date":"2015-12-21T23:41:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T23:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2015-12-21T23:41:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T23:41:46","slug":"solar-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=3965","title":{"rendered":"Solar Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past few weeks have made it clear that out 2 solar panels weren&#8217;t enough at all for the Winter months. Short and overcast days weren&#8217;t enough to keep the battery charged with even very minimal use and we went dark a couple of days. I don&#8217;t have numbers yet but these 3 panels should do a lot better than the 2 I had. I also doubled the batteries&#8217; amp-hours to have more buffer.<a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FullSizeRender1-e1450661339837.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3966\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FullSizeRender1-e1450661339837.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender(1)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FullSizeRender-e1450727211791.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3967\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FullSizeRender-e1450727211791.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few weeks have made it clear that out 2 solar panels weren&#8217;t enough at all for the Winter months. Short and overcast days weren&#8217;t enough to keep the battery charged with even very minimal use and we went dark a couple of days. I don&#8217;t have numbers yet but these 3 panels should &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=3965\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solar Upgrade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-sustainability","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}