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Re: Heavily modified 8880 chassis, succesfully motorised and solar powered.
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lugnet.technic
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Mon, 3 Feb 2003 19:12:33 GMT
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"Gillish" <gillish@wanadoo.nl> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.technic, Gillis Hommen writes:
> I've tested the solar panel some more today, and I've messured it giving 8
> watts to the lego motor now, at 15:15 in the afternoon on yet another • sunny
> winterday in Holland. I can only wonder what it would give in mid
> summer...unfortunately the project has to be done far earlier. :)
> Oh, I've found a .pdf of the Siemens SM-10 solar panel, which looks • exactly
> like the one I'm using, and all the sizes mentioned in the .pdf are the • same
> as mine, and all my messurements figure perfectly with those in the .pdf
> too, it's just that it says "sm-12" on my solar panel, not "sm-10"....ahh
> well. The pdf is here: http://www.atlanticsolar.com/traffic/specs/sm10.pdf
> and it should give a good idea of the solar panel.
That is a very powerful solar panel compared to Lego Solar. It would be
interesting to build a larger chassis and see if you could transport the
panel on the vehicle. It is very challenging to work with the power to
weight ratios needed to be self contained. Good luck with your project. You
need some of the California USA sun to help you out.
--
Bob Fay
http://www.ozbricks.com/bobfay/
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| (...) it just wouldn't go nearly as fast, which is something I am, at least for this project, not prepared to live with. Also, the solar panel is nearly 2 kilo's, with the car at 900 grams, of which like 260grams is taken by the wheels, that would (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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