Instructables Solar Panel Robot

However rather than simply building another beam robot i decided to incorporate solar into my own style of robot building.

Instructables solar panel robot.

The circuit from the solar light is meant to charge a battery from the panel during the day and discharge that battery through 2 led s at night. Solar power manager 5v is a small power and high efficiency solar power management module designed for 5v solar panel. Soldering iron solder hot glue gun a helping hand is nice as well wire cutters or strong scissors. Solar panel cleaning robot.

1 5v solar panel 1 small dc vibrating motor aka pager motor two paper clips scrap wire i used the ends from a couple of resistors i had cut down. The high speed moving roller will remove the hard dust particles from the surface. Diy 30w portable solar panels under 50 by mayankbhatia in solar s p r e e. The circuit will still charge the batteries but only while the robot is on.

This robot can help us to clean our solar panels on a daily basis it will use little amount of water harvested from rain and convert that water at the time of cleaning in to mist. By replacing the led s with motors and putting in a more powerful battery pack we do two things to this circuit. The dfrobot solar power manager series are designed for iot projects and renewable energy projects providing safe and high efficiency embedded solar power management modules for makers and application engineers. The larger each cell is the more current it can generate.

I bought a pack of 10 solar panels off ebay for 10. Instead of having it be powered entirely off the sun i decided to. They can be anything super cute option. I think my approach merges the two styles nicely and is a fun and simple experiment in robot building.

Projects in this class use the rugged 6v solar panels made by voltaic available in 2w 3 5w 6w or 9w. This allows the bot to run off of the sun but not be entirely reliant upon it to move. The solar panel stores energy over time by charging the capacitor in the circuit. Solar photovoltaic renewable electron encapsulator a compact durable and portable solar energy generator.

The more cells the higher the voltage. The formula for watts is.