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Our solar panel is ready to get green energy from the sun. It’ll save energy for use it later e.g. at night.

Here you get some pictures:

We are looking forward to get the missing parts in the next days.

First we wish you a happy new year. After having a few days of vacation, we are back again today.

In our absence we got our ordered LED-lamps to light our facility at night. For operating by remote control there must be a possibility to see what happens, even if it’s dark in the room. So the lamps are a basic element of our project. You see a first night picture on the right hand. The illumination have to be aligned, but for this first test we hold the lights in our hands. So finally it will be a good possibility to see the facility at night.

The next step is to build a website which allows the user to steer the facility. It have to include the control for the camera, the electrical cabinet and the LEON power box. And this is the problem, because the camera does not give access to any page from outside it’s own webserver. We contacted the company about this problem, but didn’t receive any answer yet.

Here you have some more pictures of the lights:

After having the essential function we make now the additional features which makes this project to LEON: Low Energy Open Netlab.

We are working again. In the break we received our webcam. Some guys here bring it to live, and I’m bringing it to you. You’ll see all 30 seconds a new picture (nearly live…) every time you renew the website:

Now you can see whether someone is working on the facility or not. Often we have to do computer work. We are playing around sometimes with the camera, so excuse ourselves if you get a bad picture.

Today i have to tell you some good news: the main control cabinet is checked and now ready to be programmed.

First i assembled the powercable with a red CEE-connector, if we want to use the system with three phases. After that i did a functional check. It´s result was I.O.

Here you can see the actual appearance:

Since last friday we’re ready to put our main control cabinet into operation. The main components are wired and ready to check them. The check will be likely on next Monday, after that we’re able to continue with the development of the software for the ILC 350 PN from Phoenix Contact.

The circuit diagram has been completely redrawn in E-Plan P8, because the one we used as a blueprint was done in Caddy++, which is not an industrial standard.

Our next steps will be to install a network cable between the ILC 350 PN and the connector on the left side of the control cabinet, furthermore we have to install new banana jacks to preserve the demanded degree of protection. As soon as the shipment with the missing motor contactor is comming, the control cabinet is completed.

Here are some pics of our desktop…



doing the “paper work”, …



and some soldering.

A few days before we showed you our drawer principle. Today we get the result. That’s how it looks like:

Some little problems are to solve before it works really fine, but we are looking forward to have a working version in near future.

We give you some new impressions of our project today. See the pictures to get up to date:

In this picture you see our 2nd floor. We buildt it to put our box-filling equipment on it. The assembly line transports the box. We stop the box, remove the cap, fill the M&M’s over the slide and put the cap back. The complete second floor can be removed by solving two bolts. The power supply can be easy removed too. Therefor we put two connectors (red and black) on the first floor.

This pictures show you a detailed shot of the box-filling.

And a last picture to show you the working progress of building our control cabinet. Inserting parts is nearly complete. Now the parts must be wired.