<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[It&#x27;s #FreeCADFriday once again!]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>It's <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeCADFriday" rel="tag">#<span>FreeCADFriday</span></a> once again! Happy weekend to everyone! As ever, show us what you're working on with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeCAD" rel="tag">#<span>FreeCAD</span></a>!</p>]]></description><link>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/topic/97f3b9e4-fea3-43e0-8c50-0a3b99ae109f/it-s-freecadfriday-once-again</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 14:43:54 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/topic/97f3b9e4-fea3-43e0-8c50-0a3b99ae109f.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:01:03 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to It&#x27;s #FreeCADFriday once again! on Sat, 26 Jul 2025 02:23:58 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/freecad%40fosstodon.org" rel="nofollow noopener">@<span>FreeCAD</span></a></span> Finally printing at least the first iteration of my solar charge control and battery power distribution box for <a href="https://social.makerforums.info/tags/HamRadio" rel="tag">#<span>HamRadio</span></a> POTA that I shared early versions of last week and have been tweaking in FreeCAD on and off in the meantime.</p><ul><li>Two battery busses, each with both an XT60M and PowerPole connection. Each bus is intended for only one battery, though.</li><li>One XT60M connector for a solar panel connected to a charger, which can be connected to either battery bus or disconnected. The solar charger has a USB-A output as well. A relay (internal, not visible in this model) protects the solar charger from being connected to the solar panel unless it is connected to one of the battery busses.</li><li>Two device buses, each with three fuses protecting five device power ports, for a total of eight XT60F and two PowerPole connections.</li><li>One 65W USB-C PD converter with a USB-A socket that can charge a laptop.</li><li>Each device bus and the USB-C converter can be independently switched between the two battery busses or disconnected entirely.</li><li>Not part of this box, but the solar panel also has USB-A and USB-C power supplies built in.</li></ul><p>The design was exploratory and is not the cleanest or more parsimonious or highest-performing modeling, but such as it is, it is available at <a href="https://gitlab.com/mcdanlj/SolarPowerBox" rel="nofollow noopener"><span>https://</span><span>gitlab.com/mcdanlj/SolarPowerB</span><span>ox</span></a></p><p>I can't imagine anyone else wants to make this, and the planned schematic is not drawn let alone shared, but some of the parts might be useful. I did make them in a dev build of FreeCAD, so they are untested in the stable 1.0.1 release.</p>

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