Wednesday afternoon, Tiare, Beau and I(Nicole) went down to Mr. Omo’s to meet Mr. Agena from Revolusun. Mr. Kamalu met us down there as well. On the agenda: allow solar panel to charge battery so it’s over the 12V charge. The likely reason for our previous problem with the pump shutting off was due to the fact that batteries were not completely charged.
When we went down to Mr. Omo’s classroom we discovered our problems had only begun. So much for thinking this project was going to be as simple as following a schematic and implementing our design…that would have been little to easy. Instead rain water had to kill our Peak Power Point Tracker. The panel for the tracker (which is wired to the solar panel, batteries and pump!) is located on the top of a storage container….which is susceptible to weather. It just so happens that these past two weeks (the two weeks in which we are to implement our design) it has rained every day. Along with death of our Peak Power Point Tracker, Mr. Kamalu, Mr. Agena and Mr. Omo found another problem concerning our wiring of the system. I guess we had put the larger fuse where there was low current passing through, and a very small fuse where there was a flow of high current. That’s probably why the system had shorted the previous day.
When all of our dreams of not failing this project had died, Mr. Agena sent this email.
LONG LIVE the Peak Power Point Tracker
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