smurphy
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Post by smurphy on Apr 20, 2020 1:42:33 GMT -8
Hia all,
I wonder if you guys saw that behavior as seen below.
Thing is - there definitly are no lightnings around. Sunny day and cloudless night.
What has changed at 1h30PM yesterday? Well - I removed the Suncontrol board, as with 1500 Lux illumination in winter, even doubling the surface of the regular 8W/6V panels won't help (this is pure math). I require almost a 100W panel for that.
So, as the cable to the roof is about 35m long, I decided to use a 12V transformator to convert the ~230V down to DC 12V, then convert it inside the Weatherboard again to through a 12V DC-DC 5V converter. It seems, IMHO, that the DC-DC converter is running at the frequency detection range of the thunderboard.
I could also go directly ~230V-DC5V converter directly (or 6V DC to compensate voltage drop on the long line). Any comment on this? hints?
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Post by SDL on Apr 22, 2020 13:53:47 GMT -8
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Post by smurphy on Apr 22, 2020 23:11:49 GMT -8
I'll already tried to put a faraday cage around both converters, and that did not work. I'll use a different approach. Use a 6V 1.5A Power supply in the basement. That should compensate for the long line voltage drop and provide something around 5.5V to the PI, and avoid me putting a DC to DC converter into the Weather station which is very near to the lightning detector. But I can only test it once the missing parts from china are here - and that will take a while :}
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Post by SDL on Apr 25, 2020 12:11:50 GMT -8
Could be coming in through the cable. You can put RF Chokes around the cable.
BP
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