Solar Power walkway marker Led display

Sunday, April 6th, 2008


These are the little lights with the stake on the bottom that you can push into the ground along your driveway or sidewalk and have the solar panel on top. The solar cell charges a AA NiCd battery during the day and at night the battery powers the LED. The circuit board in [...]

Solar Regulator by 2N3906

Saturday, February 16th, 2008


The SIMD1 was enhanced in the Solar Regulator version which supplies a constant 2V after triggering and permits driving LEDs without using current limiting resistors with constant brightness. Note that you can use this Low Drop Out (LDO) linear regulator for various applications but like all linear regulators it is “lossy”. This is not a [...]

Solar Powered +5 and +3.3 Supply by LT1300

Saturday, February 16th, 2008


This design was generated as part of a remote weather station project. One of the requirements of the design is that it have a solar-powered supply with rechargeable batteries. This design is based on a photovoltaic array available from Radio Shack called a BatterySAVER (part number 980-1045). It was designed to charge your car battery [...]