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Re: MOC: Working solar powered rover and geiger counter
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 7 Feb 2006 08:48:18 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Justin Fisher wrote:
> Hiyall. I just got my Lugnet posting access working again, so I thought I'd post
> a here's-my-Lego-webpage link. Ignore as you see fit :-)
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> One of my areas of interest is building solar-powered robots (and the necessary
> custom mindstorms parts to make them work). I recently put up a page with some
> pics of the solar rover I took to NWbrickCon, and some RCX geiger counter
> sensors:
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~stuff.tm/solarlego/nwbrickcon05/index.html
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> Some various related stuff at the main page:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~stuff.tm/solarlego/index.html
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> Also at NWBrickCon, the tip of one of my models just barely enters the frame of
> a photo of something else in Brick Journal issue 3. That's close to getting a
> model in print, but no cigar. Maybe next year :-)
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> - Justin
Very, very impressive !!!
As Philo, I also would like to see more details of your designs. There is one
question that is tacking me:
When we were working over our "Mars"-project, we tried to use the LEGO solar
panels, but we could not extract more than 18mA from one panel under artificial
light. How do you get those 500mA at 10V?
-Claude
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| (...) Thanks :) As to the power results, I'm not sure how familiar you are with solar cells, so if the following isn't useful, ah well :). The difference in energy you get from sunlight compared to artificial light is massive. Running solar from (...) (19 years ago, 8-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hiyall. I just got my Lugnet posting access working again, so I thought I'd post a here's-my-Lego-webpage link. Ignore as you see fit :-) One of my areas of interest is building solar-powered robots (and the necessary custom mindstorms parts to make (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics) !
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