The challenge associated with making a weatherproof box for arduino projects is that you ll be using sensors that are waterproof but batteries and arduino boards that are not.
Waterproof solar panel arduino.
Calculating solar panel and battery sizes.
Now we will calculate the size of the solar panel and battery to power my circuit that draws 23 ma.
These panels come to us from voltaic systems makers of excellent solar powered bags and packs.
The current sensor acs712 senses the current from the solar panel and feeds to the arduino analog pin 1.
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These are waterproof scratch resistant and uv resistant.
These are waterproof scratch resistant and uv.
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The sensor module along with arduino taking 100mah current.
Battery voltage 1 2 x 2 2 4v so required voltage for solar panel 2 4 x 1 5 3 6v by taking some margin we can choose a 4v solar panel for it.
The reset switch is helpful if the code gets stuck.
With a high efficiency monocrystalline cell they output 6v at 180 ma via 3 5mm x 1 1mm dc jack connector.
0 5 c 10 c to 85 c further i have added a grove relay to control the electric heating resistor in the solar boiler which i can control remotely in case a need more hot water.
Accepts 3 0v to 5 5v power supply.
Use an arduino two small servo motors with light sensing photo resistors to steer a solar panel towards the sun.
So how do you leave the sensor exposed to the elements to do it s job while simultaneously protecting the sensitive electronics.
The 3 leds are connected to the digital pins of the microcontroller and serve as an output interface to display the charging state.
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Using the percentages calculated above this means i will have 6 7 hours of sunlight for charging time on the shortest day of the year 67 of 10 hours 6 7 hours.
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The seeeduino stalker is a candidate for all your tracking monitoring and control projects the stalker kit includes some components which may make your ideas easier if you want to use it somewhere outside the stalker.
Seeeduino stalker waterproof solar kit is based on the seeeduino stalker v2 3 which is a feature rich arduino compatible wireless sensor network node and it s modular structure and onboard peripherals makes it convenient to log and time stamp sensor data on a periodic basis.