The project requires an ldr sensor for measuring light intensity a voltage divider to measure voltage and a temperature sensor to measure the temperature.
Solar panel monitoring system using arduino.
Use an arduino two small servo motors with light sensing photo resistors to steer a solar panel towards the sun.
Solar panel parameters monitoring using arduino october 8 2014 by salman khan there are power stations for maintaining or monitoring the power circuits or parameters related to solar panel.
In the arduino world a shield is an extension board that is plugged on top of an arduino board.
Sophisticated solar power systems use mpptcontrollers to monitor and balance the system to maintain the max power point.
More data the better we say at switchdoc labs.
Voltage is measured by the help of a voltage divider circuit as the arduino analog pin input voltage is restricted to 5v i designed the voltage divider in such a way that the output voltage from it should be less than 5v my battery used for storing the power from the solar panel is rated 6v 5 5ah so i have to step down this 6 5v to a voltage lower than 5v.
The first value 38160 is the current value of the free heap ram available on the esp8266.
To connect the different sensors i build a shield.
The project uses a solar panel to monitor sunlight and arduino board which has atmega family microcontroller attached to it.
It s put there to help monitor memory leaks.
See how to use the arduino ide with the esp8266 in this posting.
Parameters like voltage temperature light intensity and current which are important to monitor.
It allows you to see exactly what is going on in your solar panel system.
Solar panel monitoring hardware this step will go into details of the used hardware.