Category Topics

General

Introductions, community chat, and anything that doesn’t fit the other categories.
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DIY Solar & Off-Grid

Low-voltage DC systems, solar setups, batteries, and off-grid practicalities, with a soft spot for the tropics.
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Open Hardware & Development

Schematics, firmware, design reviews, and contributions to the open-source buildfor.life hardware and software.
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Products & Support

Questions, help, and troubleshooting for buildfor.life hardware: LED lamps, LVSolarBuck, and whatever we ship next.
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Testing & Teardowns

How we measure lamps and charge controllers (SPD, CRI, TM-30, efficiency curves), teardowns with internal photos, discussion of the comparison data on buildfor.life, and requests to test specific devices.
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Announcements

Product news, releases, and blog posts from buildfor.life. Only staff start topics here; discussion in the replies is open to everyone.
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Site Feedback

Discussion about this site, its organization, how it works, and how we can improve it.
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