SunControl Solar Power Controller Specification Released

July 12, 2017 Arduino, Products, Raspberry Pi, Solar Cells, Solar Power, SunControl, SwitchDoc Products

SunControl Solar Power Controller Specification Released

The SunControl Solar Power Controller Board for Raspberry Pi, Arduino and Cell Phone Charger is a 4th Generation Solar Charging and Sun Tracking Board designed by and manufactured by SwitchDoc Labs.

You can use this board to power, measure  and control your Solar Power projects. It incorporates a number of outstanding features in a very compact, inexpensive single fully assembled and tested PC Board.  SunControl is customizable with your software and hardware.  It’s even used on Project Curacao2.

Last 5 days on Kickstarter!  Over 200% of goal!

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You can also pre-order this board here (expected ship date July 24, 2017).

Features of SunControl:

  • – Easy to Use!  No Soldering
  • – Solar Power Your System
  • – Charge your Batteries
  • – Control Your Computer Power
  • – Gather Important Data
  • – Improve Your Reliability
  • – Qi Wireless Charging Too!

The latest SwitchDoc Labs Kickstarter is SunControl, an advanced version of the SunAir/SunAirPlus product line with sensors to watch what is going on in the system. Same charging system and voltage booster but with a number of improved features for measuring, displaying and CONTROLLING what your Solar Power System is doing.

You can download the full specification from the SwitchDoc Labs Product Page here.

SunControl Allows you to:

  • – Use Solar Power to Charge and Run Your small Computers
  • – Measure and Monitor the Performance of your system.
  • – Understand what is happening in real time with your Solar Panels, batteries and computers!
  • – Turn your Raspberry Pi / Arduino on and off to avoid brownouts and SD Card damage
  • – Use the onboard Hardware WatchDog timer to dramatically improve your reliability of the your project

Grove Connectors make it easy to hook up!

SunControl Solar Power

 

Coming Up Next?

We are in the final stages of releasing the Pure Python Raspberry Pi SunControl drivers and are in final testing of the SunControl Arduino C++ drivers.   These should be released in the next day or so.