I will say the reviews of the mesh pocket that I have seen say that it is not a good node if you are an outdoors construction worker type person. If you’re going to be rough on your equipment, that is not the device for you because of that big glass screen and everything.
The review I saw was like if you’re an office worker that’s going to put this in your bag and use it to charge your phone or set it on your desk or whatever during the day, that’s fine. But if you’re going to be out and about and you’re rough on your equipment, then you should not buy it.
Passing your T1000E onto a neighbor once you are done with it is an absolutely fantastic idea. They get a cheap node to play with and you get an upgrade.
As I said, my reason for going with the mesh pocket is that I live in an area where we do get tropical storms, which could knock out power for quite an extended amount of time.
I also have one of those 25W fold out solar panels that recharge USB devices so that even if it did die, I could just set that solar panel out and let it charge back up.
And that’s not even to mention that if my phone is communicating with my meshtastic node that’s 30 feet away, it’s gonna have to use much less power to communicate with that than to communicate with the cell phone tower five miles away that happens to still be running while the other ones aren’t, etc.
Your phone uses more power when the signal is weak because it has to boost the incoming signal to be able to hear it and it has to transmit with more power to be able to get to the further away tower.
I am by far the most tech interested person in this neighbourhood so gifting the node will go a long way I think. Smaller entry barrier when it’s free. And for on the farm rugged is better for sure.
As for battery life I was thinking that I have several battery packs for emergencies and I should be able to charge it from them. I was also thinking solar on our roof as a node.
The portability/ruggedness for a day beats the long battery life on the farm I think.
I will say the reviews of the mesh pocket that I have seen say that it is not a good node if you are an outdoors construction worker type person. If you’re going to be rough on your equipment, that is not the device for you because of that big glass screen and everything.
The review I saw was like if you’re an office worker that’s going to put this in your bag and use it to charge your phone or set it on your desk or whatever during the day, that’s fine. But if you’re going to be out and about and you’re rough on your equipment, then you should not buy it.
Passing your T1000E onto a neighbor once you are done with it is an absolutely fantastic idea. They get a cheap node to play with and you get an upgrade.
As I said, my reason for going with the mesh pocket is that I live in an area where we do get tropical storms, which could knock out power for quite an extended amount of time.
I also have one of those 25W fold out solar panels that recharge USB devices so that even if it did die, I could just set that solar panel out and let it charge back up.
And that’s not even to mention that if my phone is communicating with my meshtastic node that’s 30 feet away, it’s gonna have to use much less power to communicate with that than to communicate with the cell phone tower five miles away that happens to still be running while the other ones aren’t, etc.
Your phone uses more power when the signal is weak because it has to boost the incoming signal to be able to hear it and it has to transmit with more power to be able to get to the further away tower.
I am by far the most tech interested person in this neighbourhood so gifting the node will go a long way I think. Smaller entry barrier when it’s free. And for on the farm rugged is better for sure.
As for battery life I was thinking that I have several battery packs for emergencies and I should be able to charge it from them. I was also thinking solar on our roof as a node.
The portability/ruggedness for a day beats the long battery life on the farm I think.
I would agree, I think you’ve made a very good choice, because those things are pretty rugged.