Month: October 2026

The Solar Power Project II

In 2007 I bought a set of 7 second hand solar panels. I installed them on the roof of my garage.

Installing the PV panels on the roof

With the panels, the need arose to know how much power they are producing. Of course I could buy some meter to measure it, but occupied in hardware and software development I wanted to do better. This gave rise to the Solar Power project. During this project a system was created using a Beck IPC@Chip reading out a gross production pulse meter.

Breadboard solution in the meter closet