About keeping up with consumption, PV has to (i) charge the battery and (ii) supply your board. If you really want to try something new, then a two axis tracking system will improve your charging by about 40% with the same PV. Why? Because the PV will stay oriented to the sun, except for minor clouds and heavy rain when everything will be disintegrated :) https://www.banggood.com/Smart-Solar-Tracking-Equipment-Maker-Project-DIY-Kit-Technology-for-Arduino-p-1952195.html
On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 4:39 PM 'Oliver Seitz' via jallib < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Hans, > > it's true, you don't need to worry about charging, but you do need to > worry about stopping discharging. LiPos may explode if overcharged or > over-discharged. The device you've bought has both- charge and discharge > controller. But, with your extra wires, you're discharging the LiPo > directly without the discharge controller. That is ok, if you're really > sure the LiPo will never go empty. If you're not so sure about that, you > would need a way to stop discharging at a certain voltage, like 2.6V. > Really switching electronics off to only keep drawing few nanoamperes is > possible, but not always easy. > > Greets, > Kiste > > Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2022, 12:34:35 MESZ hat hans <[email protected]> > Folgendes geschrieben: > > > Hi Rob, > The set has both a solar panel and a lipo battery, so I don't have to > worry about charging. I'm just curious if the solar panel can keep up with > the consumption. I can also charge it via USB. > By the way very nice to see a project, most of the contributions are very > abstract. > Kind regards > Hans > > Op woensdag 29 juni 2022 om 11:44:28 UTC+2 schreef [email protected]: > > Hi Hans, > > Don't make it more complex than it is. An MPPT (Maximum Power Point > Tracking) is used on solar panels to get the most out of it but you do not > have to add such a device. > > If I am right a Lipo battery needs a certain way of charging and so you > need a special Lipo battery charger. > > I made a Cat repellent some time ago using a small solar panel. And since > I am using three NiMh batteries (so 3.6 Volt) I use a small charging > current for keeping the batteries charged. The batteries are connected to > the solar panel only via a diode (Shottkey in this case because it has a > low voltage drop). > > For your info. You can find the schematic diagram here: > https://www.instructables.com/Cat-Repellent/ > > Kind regards, > > Rob > > ------------------------------ > *Van:* [email protected] <[email protected]> namens hans < > [email protected]> > *Verzonden:* woensdag 29 juni 2022 11:22 > *Aan:* jallib <[email protected]> > > *Onderwerp:* Re: [jallib] sun power use > Such a prompt response! I bought a solar charger with a built-in 5000mAh > battery. It delivers a beautiful 5 Volt but with a minimum load of 150 mA. > Opened the case and the lipo delivers 3.5 Volts. So I soldered a few more > wires to it. Hence my question. It's still so much fun. > Now i have to discover what a MPPT is. > regards > Hans > > Op woensdag 29 juni 2022 om 09:59:30 UTC+2 schreef [email protected]: > > Hi Hans, > > Most PICs can operate at 3 Volt, below a screenshot from the datasheet. I > only use F versions. > > > Just check the datasheet for the PICs that you have. > > I have done several projects using a PIC that is supplied by batteries so > operating at 3 Volt or lower. > > What I do not know for sure if when you program the PIC if it should be at > 5 Volt, maybe only if you use Low Voltage Programming, so I normally > program the PIC when it is connected to a 5 Volt power supply but in the > application it can run even on a supply voltage as low as 2 Volt. > > If you have peripherals that work at 5 Volt you could always use a step-up > converter to step-up the power supply from 3 Volt to 5 Volt. > > Kind regards, > > Rob > > ------------------------------ > *Van:* [email protected] <[email protected]> namens vsurducan > <[email protected]> > *Verzonden:* woensdag 29 juni 2022 09:11 > *Aan:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > *Onderwerp:* Re: [jallib] sun power use > > You may continue to use it at 5V if the energy extracted from the PV is > drawn via a MPPT ( maximum power point tracking) IC and your solar panel > assures the current needed for your electronics. Many panels have 6V open > at 0.3A or 0.5A short circuit current > Actually any actual PICmicro will run on 3.3V ( including those rated for > 5V) if the internal oscillator is set to maximum frequency intended only > for 3.3V. Most of the low power PICs ( LF series) will run down to 2.2V ( > some down to 1.8V) so you may connect the solar panel directly on your LDO > without MPPT or PWM. > best wishes > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 9:57 AM hans <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, > I don't want to reinvent the wheel. > Until now I have always used 5 volts supply voltage, but because of a > solar panel I would like to work on 3 volts. 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