Hi,
I have some questions involving the Solar Charger Shield v2 seeedstudio.com/depot/solar- … th=132_134
I would like to charge a battery using solar panels, and then use the battery to power an arduino board.
As a battery I would use this one, seeedstudio.com/depot/lithiu … th=178_183
Is this suitable or should I use a 3A?
Will I then be able to use the battery to power the arduino and 2 servo’s?
Basically, I would like to make a simple solar tracker, which can ± work autonomously, because it charges itself with the solar panels.
Thank you in advance.
Yes the battery is suitable.
The Solar shield maximum current can support at 700mA.
Arduino would not use to much power, so it is depend your servo how big it is and how many current it could go.
But base on your project I think it would not take to many power with it.
Hope can help you.
By the way I also interesting with your project.
If you success, could you attach here or upload to instructables.com? It would helpful.
With respect to this project, can I use a 3W-solar panel?
Solar Charger V2 operates with 5 volts, so what happens if I use a solar panel which supplies 6,5 volts or more?
The battery can support at lest 3 days.
So it is depend the solar panel.
Or mostly you need to worry about the weather.
Solar power is too important it would effect your project.
I can’t promise it would not run out of battery. But in theoretically it is work.
