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Anyone interested in Arduino based Alternator Regulator?--(for the real techie)

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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 07:24:17 -0500
From: "Al Thomason" <thomason.al@gmail.com>
To: <trawlers@lists.trawlering.com>
Subject: T&T: Anyone interested in Arduino based Alternator Regulator?
All,

For the past year I have been pulling the alternator regulator portion of my
DC generator engine controller out into a standalone alternator regulator.
As before it is based around the Arduino IDE and is open sourced
(non-commercial use). I am on my 3rd (and likely last) rev of the PCB, and a
small group of us are looking to have some assembled by a short-run PCB
house.  I am sending this Email to see if anyone is interested in joining
'the build'.

Some key features of this project vs. commonly available external regulators
include:
 o Measurement of Amps in addition to Volts - Allows accurate determination
of battery state of charge.
 o 8 built in charge profiles + ability to fine tune custom charge profiles
with Volts, amps, time via external computer.
 o 4/5 step charging, allows 'overcharge/finish charge' as defined by some
manufactures charge profiles.
 o Support 12v .. 48v systems, P or N type alternators.

The biggest feature is current measurement: it allows more advanced charge
profiles - matching manufactures recommendations.  And prevents chronic
over/under charging of batteries.

You can see more about it here:
  Arduino based Alternator Regulator


If anyone is interested in joining the PCB-built, please send me an Email.
The cost is coming in around $100/board-set and we likely will be releasing
the order by the end of the month.

-al-

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Re: Anyone interested in Arduino based Alternator Regulator?--(for the real techie)

Reply #1 –
Wow that sounds really cool.  I don't think I'll ever end up getting on board but if I ever started boondocking a lot more I would be interested in something like that.