{"id":11975,"date":"2016-10-05T09:05:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T13:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=11975"},"modified":"2016-10-05T09:05:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T13:05:25","slug":"automatic-solar-charge-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/automatic-solar-charge-controller\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic solar charge controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on <a href=\"http:\/\/mdpub.com\/555Controller\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Davis&#8217;s <\/a>circuit,\u00a0<strong>vina1991<\/strong> built an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/DIY-AUTOMATIC-SOLAR-CHARGE-CONTROLLER\/?ALLSTEPS\" target=\"_blank\">automatic solar charge controller<\/a><\/strong> for a 12V battery using the 555 timer IC. It is a switching circuit controls the connections between the solar panels output and battery terminals. You can set the upper and lower thresholds for battery voltage so that the charger can automatically switch back and forth between charging and cut-off mode. When the battery terminal voltage\u00a0goes below the lower limit, the charging process begins, which stops automatically when the battery voltage reaches the upper limit. The switching is performed using a relay switch.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11976\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/FBRFT0WITUQYZFC.LARGE_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11976\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/FBRFT0WITUQYZFC.LARGE_.jpg\" alt=\"555 Timer based automatic solar charge controller\" width=\"600\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/FBRFT0WITUQYZFC.LARGE_.jpg 600w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/FBRFT0WITUQYZFC.LARGE_-580x420.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">555 Timer based automatic solar charge controller<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on Michael Davis&#8217;s circuit,\u00a0vina1991 built an automatic solar charge controller for a 12V battery using the 555 timer IC. It is a switching circuit controls the connections between the solar panels output and battery terminals. You can set the upper and lower thresholds for battery voltage so that the charger can automatically switch back and forth between charging and cut-off mode. When the battery terminal voltage\u00a0goes below the lower limit, the charging process begins, which stops automatically when the battery voltage reaches the upper limit. The switching is performed using a relay switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[1196,1262],"class_list":["post-11975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-555-timer","tag-555-project","tag-solar-charge-controller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11978,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions\/11978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}