Week 5 Update: Finishing Electro-Mechanical Work.

The focus of this week was to resolve the issue of battery not being able to be charged and discharged simultaneously. And to finish all the electrical work for the main system.

Boost Converter successfully stepping up the voltage from 9V to 15.4V with a 1V loss at the charge controller.

The boost converter was implemented into the system, with the solar panel being simulated by the power supply. The battery issue was successfully resolved by not using a store-bought power bank. Everything works as intended, only thing left to do is to lock in all the electrical components into the housing/frame.

There is a video of the system working, website currently doesn't have enough memory to show it here. Will add it later today after I make a Youtube account to upload the video to.

Electro-mechanical power diagram of the main system.