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Re: Heavily modified 8880 chassis, succesfully motorised and solar powered.
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Sat, 1 Feb 2003 00:27:30 GMT
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"Gillish" <gillish@wanadoo.nl> wrote in message
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As a school project I'm building a small car powered by a solar panel. It
should come as no big surprise that I'm doing this with lego. :)
I started out with the 8880 chassis (without bodywork) motorised by an old
style 9V motor. The project is mostly about efficiency of course, so it
might not come across as the best choice for a car that has to run with • very
little power. The solar panel is rather large though, (40x40cm or so) and
won't be on the car itself. I've measured it giving 5-6 watts, on a sunny
mid-winter (holland-) day.

Your transmission looks very good. I am curious about your solar panel. My
experiments with the Lego Solar Panels were successful but I don't think I
could move a heavy chassis. What voltage output does your solar panel
produce? I used two panels with capacitors to give me 5 volts to the motor.
You can have a look here:

http://www.ozbricks.com/bobfay/solar.htm

Keep us posted about your project.


--
Bob Fay

http://www.ozbricks.com/bobfay/



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  Re: Heavily modified 8880 chassis, succesfully motorised and solar powered.
 
(...) doubt it'll give that much power but then again, half of it would be enough anyway. The size of it is 364x364mm, so it's rather larger than your lego panels combined. When loaded it gives about 16-17 volts. I've messured ~16.5 volts at ~0.35 (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)

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  Heavily modified 8880 chassis, succesfully motorised and solar powered.
 
As a school project I'm building a small car powered by a solar panel. It should come as no big surprise that I'm doing this with lego. :) I started out with the 8880 chassis (without bodywork) motorised by an old style 9V motor. The project is (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic)

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