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Running a solar system is an experience one should undertake - it teaches you to avoid wasteful usage of power.
I remember when I first made a small rooftop solar system of 100W, I could run a laptop on that for only about 9 hours max. Once I was playing a game in my laptop. The ammeter connected to the batteries in the solar system drew about 2A when the laptop was idle and 4A when I was playing the game. The game was a pretty old one and needed limited resources, yet it was taking 100% of CPU time. I experimented by using a CPU throttler software to limit CPU usage to about 30%. The game still worked well and the current draw from the batteries reduced to about 2.5A - hence I could play for a longer time.
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