May 13, 20206 yr Author @NickM95 Yes. If you use a 10 ohm resistor it´s right. At high levels of radiation, It will be 200 mA and V in resistor will be 2 V and this value is far from Vmp so it can be considered Isc. Then, if you have e.g., 1.5 V, you´ll have a radiation level of 750 W/m2 . What we obtain from ADC is a value "k", wich varies from 0 to 4095. 0 is 0 Volt and 4095 is 3.3 V. If we want measure volts, we only have to use this : V(volts) = k / 4095 * 3.3 In your case, once you have measured volts, yo do this : rad = 500 * V(volts) = 500 K / 4095 * 3.3 = 0.4030 * K "500" is the conversion factor from Volts to Radiation, because 2 V represents 1000 W/m2 in your case. Edited May 13, 20206 yr by Javi Martínez
June 26, 20205 yr I’m thinking of making something like this to test different parts of my roof for solar radiation before I install solar panels on it... but I am a complete noob when it comes to this. I can buy stuff and put them together, but would really appreciate if you could help me to put together a shopping list to get this going! I’d probably like to build three of the same ones, to concurrently test the different roofs I want to try...
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