Week 9 – Solution for motor problem

Objective for this week :

•  To test new DC Geared motor

Description:

FIGURE 1 : DC Geared Motor

• For this week, I need to solve the motor problem in solar tracking part. After referring to some of my lecturer (including my FYP advisor), I were advised to use bigger motor for my project. In order to support the weight of solar panel (around 2.7 kg) I need to used bigger torque. The torque of previous motor is 0.784 Nm ( click here ). 
• After do some research, I had found the suitable motor for my project on the cytron website, a DC geared motor with bigger torque ( 1.9 Nm) . ( click here ).
• This DC Geared Motor ( SPG50-180K ) is more powerful than the previous DC Geared Motor ( SPG30-200K ). It can stand the weight of the solar panel.
• Here I attached a working solar tracking testing video. 
• Testing Solar Tracking