Power Measurement Board

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MAGEEC needs to carry out a huge number of energy measurements, which requires using many target machines at once. This in turn requires many sets of energy measurement kit. Existing general purpose tools were far too expensive, so we designed our own.

Image of the Energy Monitor

Full details are provided in the workshop on using the board.

Design of the energy measurement board

The board was designed by Simon Hollis at the University of Brsitol as an add-on PCB for the STM32F4DISCOVERY development board from ST Microelectronics.

The add-on operates very much like the common 'shield' concept, as popularised by other platforms. It is designed specifically to require no user build or soldering: it is plug-on.

Details on the construction of this board can be found in Deliverable 3.1 and Deliverable 3.2.

Legacy Boards

The current design is now the fourth iteration. It drew on our experience with earlier boards. Here is a video of the very first board, which had a single measurement point.

These photos show the shield unmounted and mounted:

  • Energy Monitoring Shield

  • Energy Monitoring Shield attatched to an ARM STM32F4 board

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