My First Post: Welcome To My Blog

I have always had a love of tech and gadgets, and more recently I’ve wanted to live in an off-grid home, however, I currently live in a flat in London so that’s not currently possible. With that in mind, this blog is going to be my public outlet for investigating the more portable products and technology that interest me.

One area I do want to focus on initially is portable solar products. I’ve noticed that a lot of portable solar product reviews while informative and give great subjective opinions, very few of them produce objective data that can be compared from one product to another. An example of where I feel I can provide a unique perspective is if we take a common narrative in many reviews “I took this 20W folding solar panel outside on a sunny day, and it produced 12W in direct sunlight”, that’s a good observation, the reviewer took it outside and got some real measurable data, fantastic, however, what was the measured light level at the time of testing so we know exactly how sunny it was and can calculate the efficiency, what was the temperature of the solar panel? etc.

I’m working on some articles to share with the world including but not limited to:

• My testing Methodology

• Reviews of portable solar panels

• Reviews of solar battery banks

• Reviews of portable solar power stations

• Adding my product reviews to YouTube

I’ve already acquired a good backlog of solar panels to test as you can see below, I’ve started to write the reviews and am just finishing off the build of my testing equipment and workflow which should allow me to share some insightful and unique data.

If you’re interested in any of these items please bookmark this site and subscribe to my YouTube channel, I’ll have some interesting things to share in the near future!