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Using Arduino / Project Guidance / Re: Arduino Nana + Batteries + GSM Module - possible or not?
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on: November 27, 2012, 08:53:34 pm
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If you mean the little rectangular 9V batteries, they have very low capacity, around 200 mah so wont last very long. LIPO batteries are much better capacity wise, but the cells are 3.7 V so you need 2 in series to power an Arduino. But LIPO batteries need a special balance charger if you are charging 2 or more at the same time. With any kind of project that has a Radio Transmitter in it , as the Transmitter generally is what pulls most of the power, its important to know just how much of the total time the Transmitter will be on.
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Using Arduino / Project Guidance / Re: Arduino Nana + Batteries + GSM Module - possible or not?
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on: November 27, 2012, 04:22:39 pm
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A typical AA battery is around 2500 mah , and the battery voltage is 1.2 V if its a rechargeable or 1.5 V if its a primary battery. To run an Arduino you need either 5V regulated , or higher if you want to use the onboard regulator on the Arduino board. So you need at least 4 1.5 V AA batteries in series , or 5 1.2 V in series. Even thats a bit marginal for the onboard voltage regulator. With batteries in series , the same current flows through them all, so the mah capacity of the series batteries is the same as one of them .
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Using Arduino / General Electronics / Re: Solar Voltage Check Circuit
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on: November 23, 2012, 08:30:54 pm
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You really need a battery connected to the Solar Panels to provide a stable voltage. Its not possible to know from just measuring the Solar Panels voltage when there is enough light available to produce the current that your circuit needs.
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Using Arduino / General Electronics / Re: Coax cable & signal loss
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on: November 22, 2012, 05:27:40 pm
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At 800+ Mhz , coax cable loss starts becoming pretty significant with any long length. You need to provide details of what type of coax cable you intend to use. RG58, which is a common type of 50 ohm cable, has a loss of approx 1 db per metre at 900 Mhz.
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Using Arduino / General Electronics / Re: power for rf module
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on: November 14, 2012, 06:17:18 pm
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The problem is the 433 Mhz receiver, they are very critical on supply voltage. They need 5V plus or minus 0.5 V. They wont work on 6V. The reason most likley that the coin cells work, is that they arnt designed for delivering much current, so its likley the current the Mega8 is pulling is causing the cell voltage to droop a bit. If you want they system to be reliable its best to run the receiver off 5 V regulated.
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Using Arduino / Sensors / Re: DHT22 sensor questions
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on: November 05, 2012, 10:10:59 pm
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The sensor automatically goes into standby mode at the end of the reading cycle, and stays that way until you read it again. It draws approx 50 uA in standby mode.
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Using Arduino / General Electronics / Re: MPP Tracker
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on: October 29, 2012, 04:36:42 pm
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MPP trackers are essentially switch mode voltage converters, with intelligent software that juggles the load on the Solar panel to obtain the maximum output power. There are many common algorithms used for the load juggling, but basic idea is to measure the output power from the Solar panel and then change the load in some defined manner, and then see what happens to the output power. Its not that hard to do, but you do need a good understanding of how to design switch mode power supplies to keep their efficiency high. For very small Solar panels is not worth doing,as the output power increase is at best around 30%, and unless you can source all the parts for the tracker for next to nothing,its usually cheaper to just buy a 2nd solar panel.
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