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Not sure what happened but this cheapo Amazon 200W solar blanket decided to die yesterday. Water ingress and freezing at one point maybe? Heat? In any case it delaminated and my Manager 30 refuses to pull more than about 100mA from it.
This panel is obviously trash but I wanted to demo a quick field repair you can do if you're stuck out somewhere and need to keep your fridge going and battery topped up without burning fuel. All you need to do is cut open the fabric covering the internal wiring and bypass the damaged panel. I had some Wagos on hand so that's what I used to patch in a fresh bit of wire around the damaged panel:
Back in business:
This panel is obviously trash but I wanted to demo a quick field repair you can do if you're stuck out somewhere and need to keep your fridge going and battery topped up without burning fuel. All you need to do is cut open the fabric covering the internal wiring and bypass the damaged panel. I had some Wagos on hand so that's what I used to patch in a fresh bit of wire around the damaged panel:
Back in business:
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