Any issues with snow etc?
100W of microwaves according to another comment here. By contrast your microwave oven might emitting 800W for a few minutes.
Unlike the few watts of a Wifi router or phone, it emits high power electromagnetic radiation.
It's definitely something you attach to your roof and pointed at the sky, not something you want to be sitting in front of for hours.
I could say the same thing about a light bulb, couldn't I?
It heats your skin slowly, and it can't get far enough into your eyes to hurt your retina or anything.
Microwaves penetrate your skin and even your skull. It's heating your brain like cooking food in a microwave. Yes, it's non-ionizing, but there's a relationship between heating, inflammation and cancer. And it's wrong to ignore it.
Just take simple precautions like not sitting right in front of a 100W space antenna, but instead mount it on your roof.
Also the actual signal from that antenna is 20 watts or less. If it heats you, that's going to be because it's warm.
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It’s noticeably high so I assume at some point it’ll be reduced unless it’s caused by continuous “transmission” so the satellite doesn’t lose the connection.
Anyhow, just hoping they can figure out how to get the average power draw down over time.
If you start running low you can stop letting it idle.
> More solar could be added, but there are some space and weight limitations on a vehicle.
It can be a problem if you're off-grid and moving around, yeah.
For general off-grid use it's annoying but not a big deal to set up an extra panel or two.