Use an arduino two small servo motors with light sensing photo resistors to steer a solar panel towards the sun.
Solar panel monitoring system using arduino.
To connect the different sensors i build a shield.
In the arduino world a shield is an extension board that is plugged on top of an arduino board.
Solar panel monitoring hardware this step will go into details of the used hardware.
It s put there to help monitor memory leaks.
Parameters like voltage temperature light intensity and current which are important to monitor.
See how to use the arduino ide with the esp8266 in this posting.
To check if your system is at this point simply measure the voltage on the solar cell with your load attached to see if you are close to 8v.
It allows you to see exactly what is going on in your solar panel system.
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.
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.
Solar panel data monitoring using arduino and labview mit this project presents a simple virtual instrument system based on labview and arduino to characterize and monitor a pv panel.
Real time data acquisition of solar panel using arduino and excel arduino the program code embedded in the arduino uno board which allows to acquire the measured data of pv panel from sensors and send it to a plx daq spreadsheet is presented as follows.
The project uses a solar panel to monitor sunlight and arduino board which has atmega family microcontroller attached to it.