NOTICE: Please contact me at csatt1@gmail.com if you are interested in building the hardware for people who don't have the time, skills, or tools to do it themselves. I get requests occasionally from such people, but cannot do this myself. There are now PCBs, making the construction much easier!
The IV Swinger is an IV curve tracer for photovoltaic solar panels. Both the hardware design and the software are open source.
This GitHub repository contains the IV Swinger documentation, software, and open source licensing files.
IV Swinger 2 is here! It is much smaller, cheaper and easier to build, and better than the original in almost every way. Step-by-step construction instructions are included in the repository, and are posted on www.instructables.com:
IV Swinger 2 - a $50 IV Curve Tracer
All IV Swinger 2 documentation is now available:
- IV Swinger 2: User Guide
- IV Swinger 2: Optional Environmental Sensors
- IV Swinger 2: Hardware Scaling
- IV Swinger 2: Design and Theory of Operation
- IV Swinger 2: Step-by-step Construction (for each variant)
- Fritzing files
- PCB schematics
- Bills of materials (BOMs) for each variant
YouTube demo videos (IV Swinger 2):
YouTube demo video (original IV Swinger):
