On 27th January
2013, I already bought my equipment at Jalan Pasar which is solar
charger and battery. Like I have been suggested by my advisor, Sir Basri, I bought the solar charger which 1Ampere in current and 12V in
voltage. I match it with the 12V/2.6A battery. The technician said it
suite as long as the solar charger can have atleast 13V input (it will
be proven later after next experiment on battery).
Figure 1 shown
the solar charger is charging and for figure 2 discharge. As shown in Figure , I also have made some experiment to test
the solar charger and the battery either it can perform or not. It
proven that both of my equipment running well. It can turns on the lamp
with 0.12A.
Now, I have
complete the 3rd stage in my experiment. After this, my advisor suggest
me to do another experiment on battery. First, to know how much the
solar charger needs (input voltage) to charges the battery. Another one
is, try to reduce the voltage of the battery from 12V to maybe 11V and
observe the capacity of the battery. Either the battery can charge by
the solar charger or not.
Eventhough I
have face some problem to construct the circuit at first sight, but
with the help of my advisor, BMI's technician and friend, I have solve
the entire problem. I really hope my project can finish before the
dateline. Hope all is well :)
figure 1
figure 2
As a conclusion, before I charges the battery, the capacity of the
battery is 12.66V (Figure 1). After I discharge by using lamp and motor
in Figure 2, the capacity of the battery is decreasing until 12.60V. It
shows that the battery will started reduce but only a little bit. After
I recharge the battery, within 60 seconds it rises rapidly as much
13.07V. For the first sight, I wondering why the solar charger is keep
charging even though the battery is full enough ? But after discussion
with my advisor, he explain that our solar charger (SC1201L) using is
stop charging at 14.4V and it is stop discharge at 10.4V. That is mean
the battery cannot supply the load if the capacity is less than 10.4V.
Overall, my project is still on track and hopefully all is well :)