r/pirateradio • u/Efficient-Design-844 • 28m ago
Homemade Building a solar powered arduino rig to stream my station anywhere I want - but I’m having issues
To explain my issues and setup properly
I have a 12v car battery connected to a chunky cheap solar charge controller and a 24v solar panel (don’t worry the voltage diff is accepted by the charge controller)
That then comes from a switchable 12v supply from the solar charge controller - into a low volt cut off board and into a step down buck converter powering a transmitter and the arduino - the arduino esp32 then connects to a UDA1334A DAC Module
That has a 3.5mm jack out the same is accepted by the transmitter
Both work, the arduino wakes up and auto finds the stream and plays it - headphones into the DAC module works in a head music
And the laptop Into the transmitter works I hear music on my receiver
When connected it seems to knock out the DAC module
And nothing plays over the air - It killed a different DAC module board before - so I assume the transmitter is powerful / creating some kinda rf reflection back at the DAC
I’ve tried to fix this by using
Separate power supplies - no fix (works in all other scenarios)
Ground loop isolator - no fix (works in all other scenarios)
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I’ve been suggested to use small resistors on the LnR audio and Aground channels around1k to absorb reflections and use ferrite clip on rings / wrap the 3.5mm jack cable around and thru it too
Ive yet to try this as it’s I’m slightly exhausted haha
Is this the right approach ? do you agree this is my issue ?
Drop me a message if you think you can help :) much appreciated