How to Make a Beer Can Cooler That Runs on Solar Ability

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Warning
Normally get further safety measures when functioning with energy and sharp objects.

Move one: Take out the solar panel
Disassemble the garden lights with the screwdriver and meticulously eliminate the solar panel, which will have 2 wires connected. Utilizing the wire cutters, cut off the finishes, and then eliminate one/4 inch of the plastic coating with the wire stripper.

Suggestion
Don’t cut the wires much too short it will make them additional tricky to use.

Move 2: Take a look at the voltage
With the solar panel in direct daylight, contact the positive probe of the voltage meter to the solar panel’s positive wire and the destructive probe to the destructive wire. Check out the voltage meter display screen to see if the output is 5 volts.

Move three: Get 5 volts
If your solar panel won’t generate 5 volts, include one more solar panel by soldering the positive wire of the first solar panel to the destructive wire of the second one.

Suggestion
You can include a 5-volt regulator to ensure that the voltage doesn’t surpass 5 volts.

Move 4: Increase a diode
To avert any energy from flowing again into the solar panel, solder a diode to the solar panel’s positive wire. Make positive the diode’s stripe faces away from the panel.

Move 5: Prepare USB drink cooler
Slash off the flat finish of the USB wire on the USB-powered drink cooler, exposing its wires. Strip about one/4 inch of the coating on the red wire and the black wire, ignoring any other wire shades.

Move six: Attach the solar panel for solar electric power
Solder the red wire of the USB wire to the positive wire of the solar panel and the black wire to the destructive wire to attach the solar panel, and put the gadget in direct daylight to make positive it powers up. Then, posture the solar panel neatly on to the underside of the drink cooler and very hot glue it into put.

Move 7: Prepare the beer can cooler
Area the drink cooler on the lid of the Styrofoam cooler so that the cooling aspect is facing down. Trace the define of the drink cooler on to the Styrofoam lid and cut out the define.

Suggestion
The more compact the Styrofoam cooler, the additional helpful the effects will be.

Move 8: Finish the beer can cooler
With the solar panels facing up, fit the drink cooler into the lid until 50 % of it protrudes by way of the base. Then very hot glue it into put. Congratulations: You have bought oneself a beer can cooler. Here is to solar electric power!

Did You Know?
On Norway’s Svalbard Islands, the sun never ever sets from April to August.