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I had the same set up with the same solar, power management and LiPo battery. It wouldn’t keep up with the radio. So I got rid of the SPM and 9 watt solar panel. Went with Trail Camera style 20 watt solar panel with built in 26000mAh Batteries. Solar Panel has 5volt 3amp output straight to the 1 watt module. Keep the 10,000mah battery let it back charge through the Wisblock as a back up. So far so good. Haven’t had many cloudy days, We’ll see how it goes. Trail camera, solar panel: https://a.co/d/0beNKz6i
Naw what that guy is saying isnt going to work for you. It works for him because he has bt and wifi disabled. This allows the node to sleep when its not actively handaling lora traffic. Sleep power consumption of the v4 is miniscule, 10ma or less. With wifi on youre looking at 120ma draw minimum even when the node isnt doing anything. 5 watt panel will never cut it when running wifi, I tried. Even 7watt wasnt enough. You want to run it get one of these it will work and requires no special work, even has its own built in power bank https://a.co/d/0dGp4dAh