Chloroplast solar engines


Posted on Jan 9, 2013

The heart of the Chloroplast is the Motorola MC34164-3 Micro power Undervoltage Sensing Circuit (U1 in the following diagram). In normal use, this component monitors the voltage at pin 2, and applies a ground at pin 1 ( out ) when the monitored voltage drops below 3V (34164-3 monitors 3 volts, 34164-5 monitors 5 volts). This low will then be used to assert a RESET on a microprocessor circuit. The output (an open collector) will be open when the output is above the threshold voltage.


Chloroplast solar engines
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Through tinkering, I have discovered that placing a 220K to 270K resistor in series with the input of U1 will produce a significant hysteresis in this sensor's output. For instance, a 220K resistor as R2 will cause the output to ground until the s




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