Firmware Rev 1820 Beta

[RossW]

why  a system divisible  by  2, 3, 4, 6 , 12 was more in tune with nature as well as math.

[ClassicCrazy]

All Mario did was add F to the temp readings ( or try to ) . He didn't get rid of the C !

Is it really that threatening to the world of measurements as you know it ? 

We have a lot of 1/2 inch and 9/16 bolts and nuts still left around here. If I throw away all my standard wrenches and sockets it will make life tough !

Larry

[lysningen]

what should I use to connect the kid to PC

[Westbranch]

A USB cord, standard on one end and a mini on the other end...  see the manual (pictures of USB plugin by the PV input wires)

[ClassicCrazy]

what should I use to connect the kid to PC

If you want to get serial data from the Kid this post explains how to do that
http://kb1uas.com/mnsforum/index.php?topic=2811.0

[lysningen]

thank you

[CDN-VT]

Is it really that threatening to the world of measurements as you know it ? 

We have a lot of 1/2 inch and 9/16 bolts and nuts still left around here. If I throw away all my standard wrenches and sockets it will make life tough !

Larry

Larry ,No it is not  threatening to the world of measurements , the metric system SI (System International [French Basis])  won out . ISO standard !

All I was saying , Metric is the way & when RossW posted , the year/month/day /hour/min/sec/micro/pico  made sense .

Im not worried , but it would be detrimental to exclude the rest of the world who is only metric .
I have to think to work the outbacks / trace in its temps of F , I get it , but to know 0c freeze 100 boil @ sea datum.
Im old , BS as in british standard whitworth sizes or BSW  , imperial , Stone ,National , Unified & now (metric in ISO ) is one , Italian & Japanese are the two other standards , but in a different industry standard. Kinda like plumbing !!!
I can't see the need for Fahrenheit but as long as Celsius stays. 

Im sure glad a watt is still a what ?

AND I DO KNOW THE CORRECT WASHROOM TO USE !!

VT

THE CORRECT WASHROOM  is only a USA thing ? Thinking :
USS is metric 100%

[Highflyer]

And I don't know why suspenders are still around? 

Belts won out as the new standard years ago.

I'm just glad I can still use either 

[TomW]

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I'm just glad I can still use either 

I heard some guys use both. Redundancy, I guess?

[Highflyer]

When I fly, temps are in C, and when I am at home temps are in F. 

I am comfortable with both measurements systems and transition between them daily.   

[jamesmc]

Could you add to the list of data battery stage?

+1 for battery stage addition. 
COMM_batteryStage,    /// Battery charge stage Absorb, Bulk, Float, EQ

[mosolarfan]

have 1820 running on 2 kids, I have a couple of items to note,
1. temp section, battery temp does not convert correctly to F I have 20 C toggle to F and it reads 41? cpu and fet temps seem about right if you add the hundreds marker. with temp set to F display in data log and scrolling info still show C. if the temp changes only in the temp section then whats the point of it.

2. I have about 4 days of data logged and I notice that when i page from day 1-4, values are shown, when I page back from day, 4-1 values show 0, seems strange to me.

[mosolarfan]

after rechecking, the temp info in the scrolling data does report in F however bat temp is still off

[jamesmc]

But, when Kid is in PC mode, the solar charger was not working....
I put the charger communication mode in Sync and Kid start to charge.

I can confirm similar behavior on two of our KIDS also running 1820.  The KID, after some time in PC mode, will enter a 'Resting' state and will not charge batteries.

[eraeco]

Sorry, bad news:
I just tested the KID with firmwares 1811, 1820 and 1791 for PWM Divert function.
I did so because I remembered working well this function for diversion of surplus power with 1791 firmware, but now when I installed a KID with 1811 firmware for this function, it won't work well; seems like pulses are much bigger/slower leading to higher discharges when there is surplus energy (with setpoints set to -0.2 for voltage and 0.5 for width the charge controller falls back easily 1 V below the setpoint passing to bulk) and then a longer recovery phase (until charge controller gets back to absorption and even reaching absorption it takes like a second to connect the load again).
I tried with he 1820 firmware version and it's the same behaviour as with 1811, so I see no changes have been done regarding the PWM Divert function in this last revision.
I then installed 1791 firmware version and PWM Divert works perfectly.
Mario, could you please check and fix this issue in the next revision?

For now I'll set all KIDs, that use PWM Divert funtion to firmware 1791 (I have 2 projects with PWM Divert in the next weeks).