Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that doesn’t justify a full post. For example:

  • Something interesting that happened to you
  • Something humourous that happened to you
  • Something frustrating that happened to you
  • A quick question
  • A request for recommendations
  • Pictures of your pet
  • A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like a hippo
  • Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments View context
4 points

I can’t be of any help but those Ryobi ones look quite interesting. Didn’t know they existed. Though at 150W, you’d be constantly changing out batteries!

Does your lighting plus straight an AC wall outlet?

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

Yeah it plugs into a standard wall outlet.

I guess it would depend on what you’re using it for, the max is 150W. Seems like a good way to utilise their batteries as power banks in an emergency, especially if you’re already in their ecosystem. They do have up to 9ah batteries. I have multiple 4ah batteries which I believed should have run the lights for a few hours, if only it was suitable

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

just from having a think about it, your basically going DC (from the battery) to AC from the inverter back to DC via some inverter incorporated into the Festoon lights right? Do you already have the lights?, Or are there versions of the light that use DC?

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

Already have them unfortunately, but I did learn after the fact that running them on DC would be the most efficient.

Mainly I don’t want to go through the hassle of getting an outlet installed outside as we’d only ever run them for an hour or two if we were outside when it’s dark. Something portable I could just plug in when we wanted to use them was the idea

permalink
report
parent
reply

Aotearoa / New Zealand

!newzealand@lemmy.nz

Create post

Kia ora and welcome to !newzealand, a place to share and discuss anything about Aotearoa in general

Rules:

FAQ ~ NZ Community List ~ Join Matrix chatroom

 

Banner image by Bernard Spragg

Got an idea for next month’s banner?

Community stats

  • 248

    Monthly active users

  • 906

    Posts

  • 12K

    Comments