Journal of Multidisciplinary Engineering Science and Technology (JMEST) ISSN: 2458-9403 Vol. 4 Issue 8, August - 2017 www.jmest.org JMESTN42352369 8021 Photovoltaic Test Set Design Lec. Abdil Karakan Lec. Bahtiyar Uslu Asist. Prof. Riyad Şihab Afyon Kocatepe Universty Mehmet Akif Ersoy Universty Afyon Kocatepe Universty Dazkırı Vocation Schooll, Gölhisar Vocation Schooll, Dazkırı Vocation Schooll, Electrical Departman Electrical Departman Building Inspection Departman Afyonkarahisar, Turkey Burdur, Turkey Afyonkarahisar, Turkey abdilkarkan@hotmail.com bahtiyaruslu@hotmail.com rishihab@gmail.com Abstract— The aim of this study, to provide the students in Electrical Department of Afyon Kocatepe University Dazkırı Vocational High School with practical knowledge about solar energy. The solar energy system consists of the energy production unit, the control system and the heaters. Energy production consists of monocrystalline and polycrystalline solar panels. The unit of control system is PIC18F4550 microcontroller. Consumers use 20 Waat lamps. Consumers use 20 Waat lamps. In the control system, all the data (voltage, current and power) which generated by the system is transferred to the computer With the USB connection. In the interface with respect to C # program on the computer, all data are displayed instantly and the data is recorded in the access database with intervals of 10 seconds. Keywords—component; Mono crystalline solar panel, polycrystalline solar panel, PIC18F4550, control system, C # interface I. INTRODUCTION (Heading 1) Although the photovoltaic effect was discovered in 1839, the first practical work was carried out in the 1950s. Photovoltaic energy was first developed for remote solar cells. Since conventional batteries, fuel cells and nuclear energy were not suitable for the conditions at the time, the stored energy soon began to be used, and with the development of high-efficiency silicon solar batteries, photovoltaic energy was the best solution. The energy source (sun)is infinite. The operation of photovoltaic devices is based on the principle of converting the solar radiation energy of the semiconductor materials into electrical energy (by special applications) without the need for mechanical moving parts. Today it is used almost exclusively as a silicon semiconductor material. A basic component of a photovoltaic plant is photovoltaic cell, which can generate power between 156 W x 156 mm mono cell at 3-5 W under standard conditions (25 ° C temperature, 1000 W / m2 radiation power). The power output of a photovoltaic device operating under standard conditions is called peak power (Wp). Photovoltaic modules are obtained by mounting the cells together. The main material of photovoltaic cells is silicon. Silicon is the most common element on the earth after oxygen. Silicon is not found pure in nature, it is present as compounds with other elements. However, for the production of a photovoltaic cell, silicium in pure form is needed; obtaining the pure silicon is a very difficult and expensive process. One of the alternative methods; Silicon can be obtained from extra pure silicon rods by cutting very thin discs that have been polished and treated with acid. Photovoltaic technology is a technology that offers long-term, large-scale, renewable energy production in the future with plenty of sunlight, with a solar energy potential of 380 billion kWh / year, especially in Turkey. The main purpose of this study to get strength of photovoltaic energy of solar energy, adding to or alternating with conventional production methods that are connected to a "continuous" production cycle and have difficulty in carrying out the requirements of daily peaks. A lot of researches have been done on solar panels [1- 22]. These studies are sometimes based on a single solar panel, sometimes using two or more solar panel types. The most used monocrystalline and polycrystalline solar panels were also selected in the realized solar energy experiment set. II. MATERIALS AND METHODS The set of Solar energy experiment set in AFyon Kocatepe University -Dazkırı Vocational School is aimed to provide the students in Electric Department with practical knowledge and show some applications about solar panels. The solar energy experiment set consists of 4 (four) sections. The first part is solar panels where solar energy turns into electricity. In the system, two different solar panels are used which are mostly found in the market. The second part is the consumer part of the energy generated. The consumers have used 20 watt lamps. Thus the produce electricity which have been produced have consumed all the power by the consumer. The third part is where the control card is located. On the control card, the data (voltage, current and power values) produced by the system are measured by the sensors and processed on the control