Journey towards Making the Most Efficient Garden / Pathway Light

When I first started with Solar Lighting it was to create a simple robust street light.
Created a Light that was good and robust. It was a typical Solar Street Light.
The LEDs were superflux capable of being driven to 50mA - The cooling was provided by the four leads and the PCB was made with lots of copper area to dissipate the little heat.
The design as based around a PIC micro-controller and the output was switching via the controller.
This was in 2005.

Since then I have tried various designs in lighting streets, gardens, porches and pathways.

I am on track to now make one of the most efficient lighting for Gardens, Walkways, pathways and porch lighting.

Annunciator

Design & Development of Annunciator . For a California based Company redesigned their annunciators around modern technology. The annunciators could handle 1 to 128 input modules with inputs to display from 8 to 1024 zones. The original full analog design was simplified with a single main PCB with a powerful microcontroller and multiple smaller PCBs with smaller microcontrollers, Analog & Digital inputs and outputs. PC based Software was developed to configure the system for multiple parameters. The duration of the project was 8 months.Test jigs were replicated at both places (USA & Goa, India).

Thermostat working - Backup Electric Heater for Solar Thermal

How does a thermostat for an Electric back up heater for Solar Thermal system work? Check out this video.

Electronics for an Electric Boat

Built around a Lynch Motor, the boat system is designed to provide speed and direction control. The motor is regenerative and regenerative braking is used. All parameters including rpm, temperature and torque are measured and logged for analysis. A USB interface is provided to connect to a PC. The PC Software can be used to configure limits for rpm, temperature and battery voltages.

Electronics Engineering

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