That must have been tiring and satisfiying at the same time. Can the voltage regulator not provide 5V directly to the Arduinos on the +5V instead of VIN?
Thanks, it was a long job. Yes I can send 5V directly to the Arduino Uno and probably the Due but I wasn't sure about the Due as it is a 3.3V device with a 5V rail. I decided to use a DC buck converter instead.
Ali, a question, could you not use a mega instead of all those timer relays and three arduino's? The mega has 4 independants rx/tx's and should be able to run your timers for the contactors a lot more reliably, along with all the sensing and switching needed, you can also build in hysteresis for fault finding or magic smoke prevention....
If I could write the program for the Mega then probably, however my idea of programming an Arduino is to plagiarise the work of others and comment stuff out until it stops working then do the reverse. I already had the Due and already had the sketch to run on it so for me it was a no brainer. Some day I might even copy all the code from the three Arduinos onto a single Due but that is a job for future Alibro.
Yeah, I hear you, I am just playing devils advocate though, I am thinking of all the systems you have though, heating, timing control for those contactors etc. it should also save you some space as you could put the mega inside the current housing under the fuse blocks saving you another housing. Good cleanup so far..... It's always the little things that take the most time...
@@GapRecordingsNamibia I'm fully aware that my setup is.......ahem, sub optimal but we run what we brung and in this case I didn't bring a brain capable of coding. 😒
@@GapRecordingsNamibia 🤔 Sorry mate I suspect you are wrong, my coding skills have always been terrible even back in the day when I was tapping away at my Commodore VIC20 I was hopeless and haven't improved any since. My idea of writing code is to copy the work of others and make changes one bit at a time to see what happens.
Great stuff!! Got that lid looking really nice
so much cleaner! and great idea with the crimps as standoffs.
Thanks mate, Not sure it was a great idea but it worked, if a little cock eyed. 😋
@@alibro7512 such is life. Amor Fati.
That must have been tiring and satisfiying at the same time. Can the voltage regulator not provide 5V directly to the Arduinos on the +5V instead of VIN?
Thanks, it was a long job.
Yes I can send 5V directly to the Arduino Uno and probably the Due but I wasn't sure about the Due as it is a 3.3V device with a 5V rail. I decided to use a DC buck converter instead.
Ali, a question, could you not use a mega instead of all those timer relays and three arduino's? The mega has 4 independants rx/tx's and should be able to run your timers for the contactors a lot more reliably, along with all the sensing and switching needed, you can also build in hysteresis for fault finding or magic smoke prevention....
If I could write the program for the Mega then probably, however my idea of programming an Arduino is to plagiarise the work of others and comment stuff out until it stops working then do the reverse. I already had the Due and already had the sketch to run on it so for me it was a no brainer. Some day I might even copy all the code from the three Arduinos onto a single Due but that is a job for future Alibro.
Yeah, I hear you, I am just playing devils advocate though, I am thinking of all the systems you have though, heating, timing control for those contactors etc. it should also save you some space as you could put the mega inside the current housing under the fuse blocks saving you another housing. Good cleanup so far..... It's always the little things that take the most time...
@@GapRecordingsNamibia I'm fully aware that my setup is.......ahem, sub optimal but we run what we brung and in this case I didn't bring a brain capable of coding. 😒
@@alibro7512 🤣😂 I hear you..... But, still think you will kick my butt when it comes to coding....
@@GapRecordingsNamibia 🤔 Sorry mate I suspect you are wrong, my coding skills have always been terrible even back in the day when I was tapping away at my Commodore VIC20 I was hopeless and haven't improved any since. My idea of writing code is to copy the work of others and make changes one bit at a time to see what happens.