projects:picoatlas:experiments
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Experiments
Solar APRS
Experiments in the feasibility of solar powered aprs tracker
Components
- Radiometrix HX-1 300mW 144.800Mhz
- 2x 2.5 1F supercaps (in series)
- schokty diode
- Lipower stepup to 5v
- The Arduino which is controlling the radio and generating the packet is running off a LiPo seperately.
Tests
Saturday 8/12/12
Comment 12/09 09:10 : |("|XX/M6JCX,640 Comment 12/09 09:08 : |(!|XX/M6JCX,639 Comment 12/08 15:21 : |";|XX/M6JCX,119 Comment 12/08 15:19 : |":|XX/M6JCX,118
Its able to restart in the morning and continue transmitting, obviously only sufficient sunlight between 0908 and 1521 to power the radio. This would work a lot better during the summer.
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