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« on: February 17, 2020, 1620 UTC »
I moved it back to battery power for now. Frequency 13.566.8/9. If you are considering running a solar panel with the black cat make sure you have something around 400kohm resister in C4, that will allow solar panel to wake up on its own the next day without covering the panel with hand to get it started back up. I was going to go 100% solar but find that probably a battery/solar combo would work better. Another thing would be to keep the 5v regulator chip in and get a 6-12v panel and try that without battery. I use 3aa 1.5v energizer lithium and they will run beacon for about 18 days 24/7. For the time being, expensive I will buy 1.5v rechargeable lithium cells. This will be cost effective for me and I’ll only need to charge them twice a month.