Sunday, December 27, 2009

Order Arrived

My LCD screen arrived! Along with the switching regulators.

Turns out the switching regulators were the wrong ones. They do perfectly fine on 3v, but not at all on 1.2v. Thankfully, futurlec sells another one by maxim which is designed for 1-cell operation. I'll include it in my next order. The alternative is to wire two solar garden lights together, and have a two cell system.

I also need to figure out the windmill, the voltage varies a huge amount, and I was thing that charging a 3v battery pack might be the go. My only concern is voltage, as the windmill can get pretty fast! Maybe I should keep an eye out for a dedicated two cell charging chip - accepting a wide range of voltages.

On the web interface, I am rather stuck. I need to make it so that I can edit configuration files from the internet. PHP doesn't have any major line editing functions, but I have figured out a few work arounds. Next time I work on it, I might get somewhere!

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