The solar cape was designed to work with the higher dc voltages of solar panels and charge a lead acid battery for powering the beaglebone.
Beaglebone black solar panel.
Just like the power cape it has a power supervisor that provides scheduled power up 3 separate operational watchdogs and a rtc function to the beaglebone.
What makes it special.
It was a complicated and costly board to build and has been discontinued.
Beaglebone black is a low cost community supported development platform for developers and hobbyists.
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Default is 1 for charging status 2 3 4 for.
Can supply up to 3a to the beaglebone and capes from the solar and or battery inputs.
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Traditionally the community has been using a standard octoscroller on a full beaglebone black for driving the panels.
This past year with the beaglebone black as the brain of the boat the team not only completed their most ambitious design.
The mcp5010 pressure sensor and the ph sensors i ve seen are normally 5v so they would kill the system.
I m looking for 4 p5 matrix panels or a beaglebone black rev c.
Solar input for 12v solar panel 0 to 26vdc.
This cape provides same functionality but adds new features such as rtc temperature sensor oled display and more.
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Wanted beaglebone black p5 matrix panels.
Battery input for 12v lead acid power source.
The solar cape is an advanced power management cape for the beaglebone black and white built specifically for solar users.
Raspberrypi doesn t have any analogue inputs on it the beaglebone black only has 1 7v tolerant ones.
The ds2450 is a one wire analogue input technically it supports 4 inputs at once and is addressable directly.
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When the beaglebone is running it can track voltage and current of the battery solar and system 5v via the ina3221 power monitor.