Raspberry Pi Solar Panel Monitor

Solar panel battery charging monitor.

Raspberry pi solar panel monitor. It monitors six solar panels connected to battery charging controller. It is also capable of providing key information in terms of current voltage power and overall power efficiency. Therefore i have sliced it up on a new page. Another set of sensors monitor the battery voltage current and temperature.

Communication with battery controller is made through raspberry pi serial port at 2400 baud. Recommended solar panel i recommend a 12w solar panel for running any model raspberry pi. I m setting up an off grid solar solution and the mppt controller i purchased only supports modbus via serial. Simply monitor the voltage of the battery through an arduino and have it send a unique signal to the pi board as simple as true false high low 1 0 when the voltage dips below 3 7v so the raspberry pi can shut itself down.

A solar panel battery charging monitor using a raspberry pi 2 connected to a maximum power point tracker mppt and a raspberry pi 3 showing the output graphs and data. October 23 2016 december 14 2016 nurazur. Fan control raspberry pi monitoring my pv solar panels with raspberry pi. On the rbpi is a web server connected to the home ethernet network.

This is my solar battery monitoring system based on raspberry pi. Monitoring from afar kaspars configured his raspberry pi to connect to a nearby wifi access point via a standalone modem plugged in at his neighbour s house by setting the access credentials in the wpa supplicant conf file in the root of the sd card. This is a monster blog. You can definitely get away with a 6w panel for the pi zero as well though this will largely depend on which peripherals you attach to it the zero.