Pic12F675 serial voltmeter

[GioppY]

Yes that is possible.
Please note that the voltage measure implement a digital low pass filter, so the response is smoothed.

http://www.wind-sun.com/ForumVB/showthread.php?t=1611
Cheers Art.

IMHO a simple micro switch can do the job.

Regards
Gianni

[Art]

It would be harder to produce a constant voltage to satisfy your program if panels go missing than just cross two wires,
and it costs zero dollars if you're already using your circuit, and I could forget about loop back wires.

[Art]

There's a book called PIC Microcontroller Project Book by John Iovine that is all about
Pic BASIC projects. The last project in the book is a solar tracker that works with two
cds cells with a plate mounted vertically between them which casts a shadow over one
if a solar tracker isn't pointing the whole assembly directly at the Sun.
Then a picBASIC program makes adjustments to the traker to equalize the readings of
each cds cell so the solar panels on the tracker end up pointing at the Sun.

Anyway, I think you could use two of these circuits with a bigger pic to achieve the same
thing with two identical soalr panels or arrays.