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Raspberry Pi solar logger
by Harsh298 on November 23, 2013
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Intro: Raspberry Pi solar logger
The Raspberry Pi solar data logger project is now live and is the latest version of our previous data logging systems using Arduino and Android + IOIO board projects
The Raspberry Pi is used as a data processing and uploading system which pulls data from the following sensors and then uploads to a web server via HTTP GET.I2C
home temperature sensor Microchip MCP98031-Wire DS18B20 temperature sensors on Solar hot water collector input pipe, hot water cylinder top and base and also an
unused temperature sensor in the box containing the Raspberry Pi board and interface boards.Mains current Elkor i-Snail-VC Current Transducer 0 to 100 Amps which
produces 0-5V DCLow voltage current sensors using ACS712 30A Current Sensor Modules (sourced from ebay)The Raspberry Pi ADC board uses a pair of Microchip
MCP3428 16-Bit, Multi-Channel Analog-to-Digital Converter with I2C Interface chips with low pass filters and voltage dividers on the inputs to bring the 0-5V range
down to 0-2.048 which the chips can process. [more]The completed install showing the Raspberry Pi box to the right with the 1-Wire USB interface and network cable
and solar PV system to the left.The python source code for this project can be downloaded from github.com/briandorey/RaspberryPiSolarLogger The OWFS One Wire
File System is required, download from owfs.org The Quick2Wire library is used for the I2C communication, download from quick2wire.com Side view of the interface
board showing the DC-DC power supply. There is a small rubber foot which holds the board off the HDMI socket on the Raspberry Pi.
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Zachrey says: Oct 14, 2014. 9:18 AM REPLY
The battery temperature data is valuable info for deciding when to buy new batteries.
Zachrey says: Oct 14, 2014. 9:16 AM REPLY
Don't forget to measure battery temperature! Over the years, the batteries slowly degrade in performance, until they are for all practical purposes, resistive
heating elements because they are no longer converting electrical energy into chemical energy. So if you throw 800 watts at them, they just get hot
(conservation of energy principle) instead of storing energy.
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jvela1 says: Jun 29, 2014. 11:29 PM REPLY
Hi Harsh
I really like this project, i need to do something like this using 5 thermocouples
and all the data collected i need to save it on a .txt archive, this archive must be a "daily report"
hope you can help me, im such a beginner with RasPi
yaseen_123 says: Mar 9, 2014. 8:12 AM REPLY
can you please elaborate what is the purpose of this project?
estevenson1 says: Dec 1, 2013. 12:40 PM REPLY
I would love to see if I could get this to work with my aquaponic system.
chuckr44 says: Nov 26, 2013. 10:13 AM REPLY
I see one image at the top of the I'ble but can't read it. Can you post a much larger image of the system? Thanks.