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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.

Circuit

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.

projects/picoatlas/experiments.1355046638.txt.gz · Last modified: 2012/12/09 09:50 by jcoxon

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