Dragonfruit Team Meeting - April 3rd, 2017
Attended: Kevin, Gordon, Tyler, Kaeo
Updates
- Finished Eagle Design
- Waiting on roof key to test board with adafruit charging chip
- Test of board 5
- Board 5 charging chip behaves exactly the same as board 3 charging chip and adafruit charging chip
- New Theory
- We figured the problem was in the charging chip because the board worked perfectly find in the dark
- we tied the stopped transmission to a fluctuation in solar voltage
- Previously we cut the trace of the solar irradiance sensor to the sensor board adc
- we then attached a thin wire to fix that
- we think maybe the increased current in response to a irradiance increase might short the ADC
- Fixed this by using another sensor board
- Diodes on the board might need to be flipped
- Check polarization of capacitors
- Talked to Allie about writing coding for our debug lights
Problems
- Late to get the key to roof
Tasks
- Perform more tests of board under solar irradiance
- in direct sunlight, see if board stops transmitting
- Debug populated board 5
- Some parts need to be swapped out
- Continuity test of board 5
- Create another spot on csv file for measuring voltage at XBee pin
- Will be used to look for ghost voltage
- Nathan said we might not be able to do it : Correction we might be able to use it
- Debug LED flag : turn on led and keep it on after Ghost voltage is perceived
- ADC6 might be able be a input chart
- Transmission Tests
- test adafruit charging chip indoors and outdoors
- make sure output is good
- LED behavior
- behavior with irradiance
- test our charging chip
- behavior with irradiance
- LED behavior
- Hopefully simply changing the charging chip will fix the problem
- Look into power switching of charging chip
- Tryston said that between 4.3 - 4.5V the board would be powered by the battery instead of the solar panel
- Populate a new board as soon as new parts come in
- Populate a board with charging chip
- Charging chip debug LED tests
- 1 - 5bit number to voltage tests
- this is used to make sure that the charging chip follows tryston's charging chip behaviors
- to be completed for adafruit charging chip and dragon fruit charging chip
- 5bits = 31 in decimal
- 0 = 3V
- 9 = 3.9V
- 13 = 4.3V
- 20 = 5V
- 2 - Use 3 debug LEDs to visually indicate when switching between solar panel and battery
- LED 1 : Vload = Solar Panel
- LED 2 : 4.3 < Vload < 4.5 (around the voltage that Vload switches from Panel to Battery power)
- LED 3 : Vload = battery mV
- If all are off, then the load voltage is between 4.3V and battery voltage
- Need to connect Vload to MCU
- 3 - Use LEDs to flag Ghost voltage, low XBee voltage, and dropped transmission
- LED 1 : Ghost voltage is 4V (this is much too high for XBee power)
- LED 2 : XBee voltage at less than 2.7V (full range is 2.7 - 3.6V)
- LED 3 : flag for transmission (we do not know how to do it yet)
- Need to connect XBee power to MCU
Authors
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Created by tyamauchi on 2017/04/04 03:15.