I've been doing some digging to see if it's viable to power my Microserver from Solar.
First things first, why bother with an an inverter, then an AC-DC power supply?
How about a PicoPSU? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mini-Box-pic...ywords=picopsu
Apparently any voltage from 6 to 20 V input is fine. I believe the 160 W one won't fit inside a Microserver.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums...62063&start=90
200W Solar Panel kit.
http://www.bestecoshop.com/200w-sola...onnectors.html
(Think it's designed for sheds)
A deep cycle battery http://www.batterymegastore.co.uk/pr...%7cA+Layer%7c/
And some adapters. I can't find any right now but haven't spent much time looking.
Total cost looks to be circa £500-£600
Power consumption of my Microserver with 1 HDD idling was 22 watts at the wall before. Now it's got 4 disks but hopefully a PicoPSU will offset some of that as it's not wasting energy with the AC-DC conversion.
I might actually give this a go when I have enough spare time. More of a hobby thing than a cost saving/long lasting UPS type thing TBH.


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