{"id":12213,"date":"2016-10-16T21:12:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T01:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=12213"},"modified":"2016-10-16T21:12:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T01:12:47","slug":"designing-mppt-solar-charger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/designing-mppt-solar-charger\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing a MPPT solar charger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Solar panels collect energy from the sun and convert it to electricity. Because the sun is not consistent throughout the day, the output power from the solar cell is also not constant. MPPT stands for\u00a0Maximum Power Point Tracking and is an electronic system for solar panels that allows them to produce and deliver maximum available power. In a solar-powered battery charging system, it is done\u00a0by\u00a0varying the ratio between the voltage and current delivered to the battery. For instance,\u00a0if there is excess power\u00a0harvested from the panels during high Sun conditions, the MPPT\u00a0converts it to additional current to charge the battery much faster.<\/p>\n

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MPPT Solar charger using PIC MCU<\/p><\/div>\n

LUKAS F\u00c4SSLER<\/em> shares his design of PIC MCU based MPPT charge controller<\/a><\/strong> along with his latest test results<\/a><\/strong>. He used\u00a0a MCP3424 4-channel 18-bit ADC for accurate measurements\u00a0of\u00a0the input and output voltages and currents, which are key parameters for tracking the maximum power condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Solar panels collect energy from the sun and convert it to electricity. Because the sun is not consistent throughout the day, the output power from the solar cell is also not constant. MPPT stands for\u00a0Maximum Power Point Tracking and is an electronic system for solar panels that allows them to produce and deliver maximum available power. In a solar-powered battery charging system, it is done\u00a0by\u00a0varying the ratio between the voltage and current delivered to the battery. For instance,\u00a0if there is excess power\u00a0harvested from the panels during high Sun conditions, the MPPT\u00a0converts it to additional current to charge the battery much<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1450,227],"tags":[1506,971],"class_list":["post-12213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-power","category-news","tag-mppt-solar","tag-solar-charger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213","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=12213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12216,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213\/revisions\/12216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}