Week 12 (FYP2) : Troubleshooting

Hi, this week, i will be discuss about troubleshooting. Troubleshooting is a very important step, before you can present your project to your assessors. this is to prevent further humiliating, if the project not working.

For my project, i had found 1 problem, and it was related to PIR sensors. Upon investigation, the problem was because of the range of detection for the both PIR sensor. It was known that PIR sensor has long and wide detection range, so range of detection for both PIR sensors, overlapped with each other. To solve this problem, I used a cardboard, and cover the PIR sensors. This is to limit their range of detection.
 

Figure above shown the range of detection for PIR sensor.

I had used cardboard, to cover the PIR sensors, and limit their range of detection

Week 10 & 11 (FYP2) : Assembling the solar panel with the structure

Hi, this week, i will combine the post for Week 9 and 10 together, since it took quite time to get done the structure. In case you don't know what structure i am talking about, please check it out here.

Solar panel was assembled on the structure of the highway lamp post, and the connection was soldered.

Week 9 (FYP2) : Designing the structure

Hi guys. This week i had played around with SketchUp software, to design the structure of my highway lamp post. SketchUp is a freeware software, and very user-friendly. Even a noob like me, can use it :)

You can download it from here.

Two posts were designed, both for housing the PIR sensors. Both sensors is responsible for ON and OFF the LED bulb respectively. The circles are where PIR sensors will be. 

Update : I had met my project advisor, and she agreed with my design. Yeay !