The goal for this week was to lock in all the components into the frame/housing (didn't really happen because I got sick), as well as testing the manual and custom mode by combining my Vasyl's code and my system.
Phone app's manual mode being used to control the blinds.
While testing the manual mode we ran into a couple issues, the first issue was that the charge controller could not regulate the current for its "battery" output, only the USB outputs. This was causing 10A to flow from the charge controller to the motor driver, causing the motor to overheat. The second issue was that we might have broke the boost converter.
A new boost converter was ordered yesterday and will be arriving today. The order for the placement of the electronics in the system will probably get rearranged, and a resistor will be placed in series with the battery to lower the systems output current.
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