Solar Panels / Batteries for Powering Outdoor Things?

Here’s a project idea for anybody looking for a way of killing some time…

For those of us with the BloomSky weather station (LINK), it has become painfully obvious that this unit suffers from the ‘direct sunlight is bad for temperature readings’ syndrome.

One of the solutions for this particular problem in the industry in general is to include a fan in the mix to continuously remove excess heat build-up from the temp monitoring element.

Well, I thought it would be cool to see if it’s possible to connect a fan of some sort to the BloomSky and have it powered by the same solar panel as the BloomSky unit itself.

Any takers?

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