WEEK 13 :PREPARATION OF FYP II PRESENTATION DAY

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FYP II

Week 13 

Title: Preparation for FYP II presentation day.

 Objective: Doing preparation before presentation day about a week.  study about the project the project  and also do other research for extra acknowledgement. i already design my final poster after discussion with my supervisor. further more, make sure the project function until for presentation day.

Result :

after consult with my supervisor, he suggest to me there is no need to be use  a logo soft as a interfacing. so i need to changed my block diagram and some other part.

WEEK12 : TESTING THE SOLAR TRACKER PERFORMANCE

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FYP II

Week 12

Title: Testing performance

Objective: To testing the solar tracker function, movement, and voltage charge

Content/Procedure: the solar tracker is tested under a sun light . testing location is at UNIKL BMI football field. 

Result & Analysis:

solar tracker at football field to generate electricity 

result for voltage vs time

WEEK 11: TESTING THE LDR AND DC MOTOR

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FYP II

Week 11

Title: testing the LDR and  DC motor performance

Objective: Testing the LDR performance and motor movement

Content/Procedure: LDR performance is testing by adjusting the variable resistor.The reading value of LDR is is take in two position (when LDR  is on the light and when LDR is on the shade)

and observe the DC motor movement. 

Result :

FIXED RESISTOR	Vout (LDR on light)		Vout (LDR on shade)	Voltage Change (V)
15k 3.2k	9.28               8.9		8.19 8.19	0.99 3.24
2k	8.88		5.66	3.48
1k	8.16	5.4		4.25
500	7.14	3.87		4.74
300	6.55	2.4		5.21
200	4.13	1.34		3.2
100	3.34	0.9		2.78

CONDITION	MOTOR DIRECTION
LDR1> LDR2	LEFT
LDR1< LDR2	RIGHT
LDR1= LDR2	STATIC
LDR1> LDR2	RIGHT
LDR1<LDR2	LEFT

WEEK 10 : HARDWARE AND ELECTRONICS PART

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FYPII

Week 10

Title: Connect hardware to electronics part

Objective: Finish wiring all component and circuit. 

Content/Procedure: All circuit and wire is connect to the hardware. some jumper need to use in this part and soldering the wire. 

Result :

WEEK 9 : HARDWARE WELDING

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FYP II

Week 9

Title: welding the hardware design

Objective: To make sure the hardware part is build/ welding according to the design.

Content/Procedure: the metal/rod and some of screw is use for this part. the DC motor is welding attach to this design. i use black colour to paint this hard ware.

Result & Analysis:

Conclusion: the hardware is function completely according to the design

WEEK 8 :SOLAR TRACKER HARDWARE DESIGN

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FYPII

Week 8

Title: Proposed the Solar tracker hardware design

Objective: To ensure the solar tracker can stand any weight that will be use

Content/Procedure:

The design being made using scatch up 2010 tool to get the idea on how the hardware will be present on the Industry Day. So here I enclosed the design for solar tracker to proposed the project advisor for further information.

Result & Analysis:

Proposed Design Model for Solar Tracker

Figure 1: top view

Figure 2 : overall design

Conclusion:

The design of the hardware of solar tracker well accepted and done.

WEEK 7 : COMBINING CIRCUIT

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FYPII

Week 7

Title: Wiring the separated circuit 

Objective: To connect the LDR circuit to Relay circuit and magnetic sensor.

Result & Analysis:

this is the sketch of the circuit connection

me testing the circuit

in this picture, i am using switch to test the separated circuit and change to magnetic contact sensor after that

WEEK 6 : PRORAMMING IN C

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FYPII

Week 6

Title: Programming in C

Objective: to ensure the PIC microcontroller is operate and also study on input and output pin

Content/Procedure: I create a single programming for this project to measure the voltage  and display at LCD display. i start to design using proteus software.

Result & Analysis:

pin configuration

connection between PIC and circuit .

B=battery

SP= solar panel 

portB connect to LCD display

portD connect to relay

http://learn.adafruit.com/character-lcds/using-a-character-lcd

WEEK 5: SOLAR CHARGING

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FYP II 

Week 5 

Title: Constructing the solar charging circuit

Objective: construct the charging circuit on breadboad

Content/Procedure: 

•                                  conctruct the circuit on the breadboard. 
•                                   connect to the solar panel (photovoltaic)
•                                   measure the voltage value (output)

Result & Analysis:

this is the voltage produced by the solar panel. LED was on that is mean the circuit is in dumping mode

WEEK 4:RELAY DRIVING BASIC

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FYP II

Week4

Title: Relay driving Basic

Objective: To understand the Relay function

Content/Procedure:

Relays are components which allow a low-power circuit toswitch a relatively high current on and off, or to control signalsthat must be electrically isolated from the controlling circuit itself.

To make a relay operate, i have to pass a suitable .pull-in. and .holding. current (DC) through its energising coil. And generally relay coils are designed to operate from a particular supply voltage . often 12V or 5V,  the coil has resistance which will draw the right pull-in and holding currents when it is connected to that supply voltage. So the basic idea is to choose a relay with a coil designed to operate from the supply voltage are by control circuit

Result & Analysis:

Block diagram of relay driving basic that used in my project

WEEK 3 : TESTING THE SOLAR PANEL

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FYP II

Week 3

Title: Testing the Solar panel

Objective: To recognize the solar panel polarity

Content/Procedure:

The solar charge controller  have been test with the sunlight at certain degree where the sun absorbs at the maximum power point. Using the multimeter

Result & Analysis:

Equipment setup to operate the circuit

When the solar array connected to the solar panel, the voltage reading at multimeter at is high than zero. 

WEEK 2 : SOLDERING THE PCB

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FYP II

Week 2

Title: Soldering the PCB board

Objective: To ensure the all component are connected in to the PCB board

Content/Procedure:

This week I continued on PCB development circuit by soldering the component after the PCB done the etching process. Here I encounter some problem on the board where it happen capacitor polarity which wrong install then re-install back in correct connection.

Result & Analysis:

PCB design on board at bottom view where the soldering part proceed

WEEK 1 :LIGHT DEPENDENT RESISTOR CIRCUIT

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FYP II

Week 1

Title: Simulation circuit into the software designer

Objective: To simulate the  LDR circuit on the software engineering

Content/Procedure:

From this time, I already make the circuit development with etching the PCB of LDR controller. The duration for development took almost 2 week to make it complete PCB board with appropriate design on the board. Here I enclosed the simulation LDR circuit using proteus and rough PCB design progress in Protel 99 PCB Design

Result & Analysis:

Schematic diagram of LDR using proteus

The Bottom PCB design

This is the etching layout printed into the PCB board using laser print to print the layout and using acid. When the plate is immersed in acid, the bare metal, exposed by the lines of the drawing, is eroded.

Conclusion:

The circuits of PCB layout well simulate