Solar Power Charger Board

Contributed by BesterMichael

Application: Green/Environmental

Information type: Screenshot

Keywords: pcb, power, solar, wireless

Manufacturer: Microchip Technology

Technology: PIC32

Theme: chipKIT Challenge

Overview

Starting to get the hang of the PCB design tool. I designed an add on board for the ChipKit MAX32. It will eventually charge AA batteries via a solar cell. A PC will be able to wirelessly monitor the solar panel status, charger efficiency, and battery status.

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Details

Solar Power Battery Charger

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BesterMichael

United States

15 weeks ago

I got the hardware assembly done this evening. I can now measure input voltage and current, output voltage and current, adjust my charger output voltage level, and wirelessly monitor everything via wireless protocol (zigbee). The MPIDE Wire and SPI drivers sure came in handy. I have had no problems with them yet. It did help to have a Saleae USB logic analyzer to help trouble shoot my firmware drivers. :)

mhanuel

Venezuela

15 weeks ago

Good work man,

what do you mean with your USB firmware drivers? what kind of problems are you having?

Best,

About the author

BesterMichael: I'm an electronic design engineer. I work with firmware, analog and digital circuit design, board layout, software, FPGAs, 32-bit, 16-bit, 8-bit controllers.

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