Monthly Archives: May 2008

World Solar Challenge

May 25, 2008 – 11:00 am

Back in ’94ish, I participated in the World Solar Challenge as part of a TAFE team. It was a very low cost, low tech entry, basically it was a fiberglass canoe shape body with two wheels at the front and one at the back. A big flat solar panel array above our heads which could [...]

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Building On The Ridge or V Trough Solar Concentrator Array

May 9, 2008 – 10:16 pm

A V trough solar concentrator array would look like the below, not shown is the solar tracker. This particular array has a 60 degree concentrator, with the reflector surface the same length as half the width of a solar panel. The yellow lines represent the sun and show the sun reflecting to the middle of [...]

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