solar fountain, spray & rgb light
- Written by Marc Hammermann
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- Ever thought to water your garden by a complete self-sufficient automatic solar powered system that also drives RGB LEDs for garden lightning. Here is my smart garden IOT device that can be used for building up such a system. First lets make a overview what ideas are behind a solar self powered smart garden.
Lets see what basic building blocks we have:
- Solar Panel
- Solar Load Balancer
- 12V Battery
- marelab solarPump device
- water reservoir & 12V DC Pump to drain the garden
- water pump for waterfall or other ideas
- drain the garden with water from the reservoir
- Add RGB LedStripe for light effects in the garden
Feature list of marelab solarPump device
- Timer based pump managment
- Power Switches Mosfet based
- Configurable RGB stripe pattern
- WIFI access and MQTT support
- Configurable drain patterns
- easy integration into smart home & garden automatization
- Battery managment to ensure a safty operation
- Current & Voltage monitoring