Hello. My team is trying to get one of the ez430 boards to run off of the solar panel in this kit. We wrote up a very simple program that turns on an led while powered. When we plug the board into the solar panel, the led doesn't light up consistently. Please note that we let the panel charge for an hour. We did voltage readings of the solar board and the solar board is putting out around 3.4 V but as soon as we plug in the board into the solar panel, the voltage nearly goes to 0 V.
Is there some sort of initialization that needs to be done in the software to get the board to run off of the solar power or enerchip correctly? We have read the user guide many times and have yet to find any proper documentation that discusses this matter. Thanks.