MJLorton Solar Power and Electronic Measurement Equipment Forum

Solar Power => Solar Power => Topic started by: AB1BE on April 17, 2012, 05:01:33 PM

Title: Solar panel evaluatation & monitoring battery charging (LadyAda project)
Post by: AB1BE on April 17, 2012, 05:01:33 PM

Here's a solar & Arduino project that may be of interest to the group. Lady Ada calls it a "Portable solar charging tracker".  The functions are:

• Portable! Its hard to test solar panels inside
• Ability to log to an SD card for long-term data analysis (to be added later)
• Keep track of the solar panel voltage
• Keep track of the battery voltage
• Keep track of how much current is going thru the panel to the charger

Note, this project is not a solar-powered datalogger.

Take a look: http://www.ladyada.net/make/solarlogger/index.html (http://www.ladyada.net/make/solarlogger/index.html)

Title: Re: Solar panel evaluatation & monitoring battery charging (LadyAda project)
Post by: MJLorton on April 20, 2012, 09:14:18 AM

This is brilliant....this is the basis of what I've been looking for...for ages!

Thanks for posting....hope to make time for this project in the future.

Cheers,
Martin.