{"id":749,"date":"2011-06-23T06:56:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T10:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2011-11-26T08:22:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T13:22:29","slug":"control-panel-step-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"Control Panel &#8211; Step 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After removing the board that was our old control panel I fished out the  shunt wires and tested to make sure they still had a  connection to   the back of the trailer.\u00a0 Also at the same time I found  the brown   insulated multi conductor wires for the water tanks sensors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMGP2727_640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-751\" title=\"IMGP2727_640\" src=\"http:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMGP2727_640-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMGP2727_640-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMGP2727_640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I added  some  wiring for the Voltage measurement and whalaaa, with two cheap  harbor  freight meters I could monitor the voltage and amperage draw  from the  battery. This picture is after I had the new board installed over the existing hole, more on that in the next step.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P1010003_800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-798\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P1010003_800-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P1010003_800-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P1010003_800-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P1010003_800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a while  we got by with this setup, open up the overhead cabinet  and balance  multimeter&#8217;s on top.\u00a0 During this time I took some readings  from the  freshwater tank sensors to see if they could be made to  function.\u00a0 I  also built a little control board from one of Zeppliniums  circuit  diagrams.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforums.com\/forums\/f443\/fresh-water-tank-size-and-gauges-77700.html\">Here is a post about what I found with the fresh water sensors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P1010008_800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-799\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P1010008_800-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P1010008_800-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P1010008_800-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P1010008_800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The LEDs go out as the water tank empties &#8211; or not \ud83d\ude09 Going to have to spend some more time with this part for sure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After removing the board that was our old control panel I fished out the shunt wires and tested to make sure they still had a connection to the back of the trailer.\u00a0 Also at the same time I found the brown insulated multi conductor wires for the water tanks sensors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airstream","category-controlpanel","category-ozorebuild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}