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
Click here to download the full size of the above Circuit.

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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