The new AxeMini Solar Sensor

Apart from adding terminal blocks to make boxing the Mini easier, they are basically the same as the old sensor.
They feature: Auto parking at night, East, or reverse inhibit, and the usual delays on west movement of about 3-4 minutes.
If you live in a cloudy climate, or your tracker will be in a position to get effected by shadows from trees etc, let me know and I can change the program to a 30 minute cycle which is much better in shade or cloud effected climates.
REMEMBER; this info above is of Southern Hemisphere, in the Northern Hemisphere the connections are the same as shown, but the east LED sensor shown above will be your West Sensor in Northern Hemisphere.
Please use a 7amp inline fuse on the power supply.

The schematic below is of the larger axetracka which has manual tracking etc, which is not supplied on the axemini pcb.
it also shows downloading pins & jumper, again, ignore these if you have the axemini.
I am one of those whacko people who makes things, then try to figure how to make a schematic, a strange issue in my brain since childhood, so no putting crap on my schematic drawing ability ok. or I'll slap ya senseless.....! Click here for a larger printable schematic

If you see an error in my schemats please feel free to inform me. I may never fix it but I will know ok. haha. smile damn ya..! email dave@axetracka.com Home Page