Solar Power

Solar PV and Solar Thermal projects, generating our own energy

Mastervolt Soladin RF Filtering Photo

Mastervolt Soladin RF Filtering

04 September 2014 4 min read

The Mastervolt Soladin 600 solar mains inverter has an issue where is it causing a lot of RF interference so we added additional RF Filtering and screening to try to reduce the unwanted radio emissions

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Mastervolt Soladin 600 Inverter RF Interference Photo

Mastervolt Soladin 600 Inverter RF Interference

18 July 2014 2 min read

Tracking down the source of RF Interference across the HF bands and it was the Mastervolt Soladin 600 Inverter

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Raspberry Pi Solar Data Logger v2 Plans Photo

Raspberry Pi Solar Data Logger v2 Plans

22 July 2013 4 min read

Planning to build a new Raspberry Pi Solar Data Logger version two to replace our current data logger

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Cental Heating Control via Windows Phone and Raspberry Pi Photo

Cental Heating Control via Windows Phone and Raspberry Pi

10 June 2013 2 min read

Using a Windows Phone and a Raspberry Pi to control our home's gas-powered central heating system

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Raspberry Pi solar data logger after one year Photo

Raspberry Pi solar data logger after one year

06 June 2013 2 min read

Twelve months of data from our Raspberry Pi solar data logger

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Solar Air Removal Upgrade SpiroVent RV2 Photo

Solar Air Removal Upgrade SpiroVent RV2

31 May 2013 2 min read

Adding an automatic air removal vent to our solar thermal system using a SpiroVent RV2

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Low Voltage Cut off using MAX8212 Photo

Low Voltage Cut off using MAX8212

10 February 2013 1 min read

Using a MAX8212 to add a low voltage cut-off on our off-grid solar PV system

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RF Shielding on a Mains Inverter Photo

RF Shielding on a Mains Inverter

19 September 2012 2 min read

Our mains solar inverter is causing RF interference on our ham radio transceivers so we put it in a metal case to improve the RF shielding

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The Hackaday Effect Photo

The Hackaday Effect

25 July 2012 2 min read

What happens when a blog post appears on the Hackaday website?

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Raspberry Pi Solar Data Logger Photo

Raspberry Pi Solar Data Logger

24 July 2012 2 min read

Building a data logger using a Raspberry Pi to record data from our solar PV system

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Raspberry Pi Fan Controller and Interface Photo

Raspberry Pi Fan Controller and Interface

20 July 2012 2 min read

Raspberry Pi Fan Controller and Interface

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Raspberry Pi I2C  Analog to Digital Converter Photo

Raspberry Pi I2C Analog to Digital Converter

11 July 2012 3 min read

Our first Raspberry Pi I2C Analog to Digital Converter with a power supply

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