Yes, you guessed it! We let the magic smoke out!!!
If you look at the left side of the Arduino chip, you'll see a small bump, That bump is the melted plastic from the chip burning up!
Friday, January 30, 2015
Burnt Arduino
So what happens when you have a zener diode short out and rather than feed 5VDC to the Arduino Analogue Input, we feed 15VDC?
Yes, you guessed it! We let the magic smoke out!!!
If you look at the left side of the Arduino chip, you'll see a small bump, That bump is the melted plastic from the chip burning up!
Yes, you guessed it! We let the magic smoke out!!!
If you look at the left side of the Arduino chip, you'll see a small bump, That bump is the melted plastic from the chip burning up!
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Raspi & Gertduino UPS
I have purchased a couple of Arduino boards that are made specifically for the Raspberry Pi and they are named after their inventor Gert van Loo, Gertduino. The specs, software, and manual are available via this link.
It is a great platform to work on the inter-communication between the Raspi and the Arduino. I'll be using this combination to further develop my battery monitoring system for my Raspi UPS.
The Arduino will have a 3 level response:
1) My plan is to have my Raspi backup battery charged via the solar panels.
2) The Arduino will monitor the battery voltage. If there is very little sun, or too much load, then the arduino can switch on the 110VAC battery charger to charge the batteries back up.
3) The Arduino will continue to monitor the battery voltage, and if there is no sun AND no utility power, then the Arduino will safely shut down the Raspi if the voltage drops to a preset level. If the voltage continues to drop, the arduino will shut off as well.
NOTE: The advantage of the Arduino is that it can safely recover from a power outage, where the Raspi may not. So the Arduino will power back up and when the battery voltage reaches a preset level, it will power up the Raspi.
ARDUINO vs GERTDUINO: I like working with the Gertduino since it is mounted on the Raspi that it communicates with. However, I've been able to communicate with a regular Arduino Nano as well, so this would be the device I will use as my Battery Monitor, freeing the Raspi GPIO pins for other uses.
It is a great platform to work on the inter-communication between the Raspi and the Arduino. I'll be using this combination to further develop my battery monitoring system for my Raspi UPS.
The Arduino will have a 3 level response:
1) My plan is to have my Raspi backup battery charged via the solar panels.
2) The Arduino will monitor the battery voltage. If there is very little sun, or too much load, then the arduino can switch on the 110VAC battery charger to charge the batteries back up.
3) The Arduino will continue to monitor the battery voltage, and if there is no sun AND no utility power, then the Arduino will safely shut down the Raspi if the voltage drops to a preset level. If the voltage continues to drop, the arduino will shut off as well.
NOTE: The advantage of the Arduino is that it can safely recover from a power outage, where the Raspi may not. So the Arduino will power back up and when the battery voltage reaches a preset level, it will power up the Raspi.
ARDUINO vs GERTDUINO: I like working with the Gertduino since it is mounted on the Raspi that it communicates with. However, I've been able to communicate with a regular Arduino Nano as well, so this would be the device I will use as my Battery Monitor, freeing the Raspi GPIO pins for other uses.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Raspi & APRX
For some reason when I completed the assembly of my RaspiTNC, I couldn't get it to run with APRX software, yet I was able to get it running on XASTIR. So I knew that my transmit and receive was working fine.... and had assumed (correctly) that I had probably made a mistake in my configuration file. I've gone back now and revisited the APRX Software page and re-read the APRX Manual. This time around I still had issues, but with the help of the APRX-Software Google Group I was able to find my configuration problem (I had left the - in my APRSIS password, so it wouldn't connect). Also I have to say that using my portable APRS setup = ASUS tablet running APRSDroid & Yaesu VX-6R & Mobilinkd TNC makes it easy to test out my iGate configurations.
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