INA-219 current/voltage sensor on I2C


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lizby
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Posted: 12:23am 29 Oct 2024      

Fruitoftheshed: INA219

I'm using the INA226 with Annex, monitoring some miniature 18V 1A solar panels to see what wintertime shading is like in the hopes of someday mounting real panels.

Here's a graph:



I am not confident that I have the calibration correct, but for my purposes, it doesn't matter--the comparison over the day is what is important for this exercise.

Write-up here

(My post followed by a long OT digression on a Stirling engine heat pump perpetual motion device.)

  DaveJacko said  (was surprised not to find anything like that already on this site.)


A year ago I lamented that nothing like this was available with wifi (from China), but was sure than in another year there would be. I was wrong.

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Edited 2024-10-29 10:24 by lizby