I am currently constructing a wind turbine and have a wireless weatherstation which has a puter interface to collect the wind speed data.
I need to characterize the efficiency of the turbine, so there is a need to correlate the windspeed with the DC voltage across the 1KW load. The requirements are simple ...DC measurement, resistor bridge to get 180v max down to PC level 5v max at the ADC, low freq response ie
1 measurement per second would be fine for averaging purposesI have researched the inexpensive means to accomplish this by using either the audio card input or the parallel port.
Does anyone have any comments on the following implementations or a recommendation for other links of suitable capability:
TIA, Stew Corman from sunny Endicott
BTW, an alternate project would be a NiMH battery tester under load using same hardware with a 555IC to apply the load and remove load for time measurement to threshold of 1.0V per cell