Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. In today's tutorial, I am going to share a new Solar Panel Library for Proteus. I hope you guys are gonna enjoy this Proteus Library as it's not available in Proteus and we are presenting it for the first time. :) I am quite proud of my team. B|
We all know about Solar Panels which is an excellent renewable energy source. It is widely adopted by the inhabitants of this green planet as its totally free and converts solar energy into electricity. Solar panels are also used a lot in Engineering Projects especially related to renewable energy sources. Proteus doesn't have solar panels in its database that's why our team has designed this library. Using this Solar Panel Library for Proteus, now you can easily simulate solar panels in Proteus and can design your projects' simulations. I will also share some projects in which I will interface it with different Microcontrollers like Arduino, PIC Microcontroller or 8051 Microcontroller etc. So, let's get started with How to download and simulate Solar Panel in Proteus:
Solar Panel Library for Proteus
First of all, download the Solar Panel Library for Proteus by clicking the below button:
Now open you Proteus software or restart it if it's already open.
Proteus is not that smart so we have to restart it so that it would add new Library components in its database.
In the Proteus software click on the components button and make a search for Solar Panel as shown in below figure:
Now place this component in your Proteus software.
If everything goes fine then you will get something as shown in below figure:
Now double click this solar panel and its Properties panel will open up as shown in below figure:
If you have worked on Solar Panel then must have the idea that output of solar panel depends on the intensity of sunlight.
So, if its shiny bright day then solar panel normally give in the range of 15V to 19V.
Similarly, if its night time then solar panels output ranges from 2V to 6V.
While on a cloudy day it could vary between 8V to 12V.
So, if you want to change the output of this Proteus' Solar Panel then you have to open this Properties Panel and then change the Voltage value.
By default, it will give 12V as an output.
I am working on adding some button so that you could change the output in running simulation but for now you have to stop the simulation in order to change it.
Now let's place a voltmeter at the output of this solar panel and check its output.
Here's the simple solar panel simulation in Proteus:
Now you can see in above figure that our Solar Panel is giving 12V as an output.
So, now let's open it's Properties Panel and change the voltage value to 16.5V.
I have changed the value and here's our output:
You can see in the above figure that now voltage has changed to 16.5V.
Here's a video demonstration on How to download and install this Solar Panel Library for Proteus.
So, that was all about Solar Panel Library for Proteus. I hope you guys can now easily download and install it. If you still got in to any trouble then ask in comments and I will try my best to resolve them and also let me know about your feedback for this Library. Thanks for reading. Have a good day. :)
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Comments on ‘’ Solar Panel Library for Proteus ‘’ ( 7 )
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It is a wonderful library you have created for proteus. In properties of solar panel I noticed that it does not have internal resistance model included, which is dynamic in nature. For this reason, when I tried using Solar panel library connected in Parallel, it gave me singular matrix check error at the node, connecting two positives. The way I got around it, is by adding a small resistance, say 10 Ohms between two Positives. simulation worked OK.
As per the Thevenin's theorem, every source has internal resistance, which is dynamic in nature. If you add internal resistance based on Open circuit voltage, Short Circuit Current and Power of the panel then this may help in modeling a solar panel near to real.
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farukabdullahi
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why the solar panel has no variable Ampere as it varies with the brightness of the sunlight in real life
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Hi.
Thank you.
It's a very useful component.
Unfortunately it's missing a very important property: the amperage, the value of the current generated by the solar panel.
Right now is simulated as a simple idle battery, which is not helping much.
It should be simulated instead something between a battery and a constant current source.
I hope you'll fix this as soon as possible.
Thank again.
Regards,
David.
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manas
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i need tp4056 librery pls send me the link on manasmahadik91@gmail.com
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zakia
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vraiment bravo,j'ai beaucoup aimé tes articles,mais j'ai une petite question:est vous avez fait une simulation d'un generateur PV?JE veux dire ensemble des panneaux ensemble(GPV) et le simuler sous proteus et d'avance.
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This is a really awesome article, You are sharing the exact information people should know, thank you for the sharing this. This contains all the information nowadays solar energy can be a big replacement or alternative to save our resources. Thank you once again for sharing, I would love to refer this article to my friends.
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sungoldsolar
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Hey dear, You wrote an excellent article. To me, solar energy is a good alternative to replace fossil fuel as the major energy source because solar power is renewable at absolutely no cost to supply energy infinitely. The world pollution is getting worse. Any effort that can reduce pollution to the environment helps to save the earth.
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The way I got around it, is by adding a small resistance, say 10 Ohms between two Positives. simulation worked OK.
As per the Thevenin's theorem, every source has internal resistance, which is dynamic in nature.
If you add internal resistance based on Open circuit voltage, Short Circuit Current and Power of the panel then this may help in modeling a solar panel near to real.
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