15/06/2012


Me and Tom made a lot of progress yesterday as one can see from the upper screenshot of the current Front Panel. We have added gauges to show how much power is created from the solar panel and how much the actual power is (the scaled area of the house panel). Also we have added some electric devices in the house to explicitly show what one can power with the actual power.
Currently one can see that with the current specification one can power the TV, the light (but only with energy saving bulbs), the laptop and a games console. If the switch is up, the device is turned on and the LED next to it shows if can be powered from the actual the area of the house panels. Once the calculated power of all these devices exceeds the generated power from the solar panels, the LEDs will turn off which then ultimately means that there is no power in your household until you have turned of some devices. 

Sundeep