If you want to use more solar power but can't put up panels, get a power strip and a light timer and setit to be on from 8 AM to 4 PM and off otherwise and see what you can do with it. I use it to charge ebike batteries and I've found that if you don't ride every day it works well enough that I still always have a full charge when I ride

[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had an ebike for a month and it cost almost nothing to recharge, so this would be a really good fit for home solar as you mention.

Miss that thing a lot, it made going out even for mundane things or just even exploring so fun. Now i'm back to my manual bicycle 😢 still fun but much more tiring lol

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What happened?

[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My apologies - it was a free one provided by my local government for a month. We previously had a docked ebike system, but it went bankrupt due to vandalism... The replacement system put in place was to give people the ebikes directly, which worked much better

[–] logir@feddit.it 2 points 10 months ago

Where do you live? Government giving ebikes for free sounds crazy for me, that I live in Italy

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

...I've read your sentence three times- what do you you mean by power strip and light timer? how do you charge your ebike battery with this?