Right now jump start pack, keep battery topped up use on aeroplanes. Future would be more useful when aeroplanes begin to fly more on electric. My fingers are crossed on the outcome of Lithium air battery capacity, weight and performance. Hopefully they are within financial reach. I am pretty happy with the ProgMess of electric motors as far as the weight, performance and price of rare earth, three phase DC brushless motors and their controllers.
Retrofitted with electric drivetrain Europa motorglider is within the realm.
Y11-05-07
Hi all, here’s a couple of pictures of the rollout of the first SunBlazer trailer. This has been the culmination of four and a half months of non-stop design and fabrication which has produced six units capable of lighting up a total of 240 homes. All of the work is now replicable to allow the manufacture of the remaining 9 systems when funding permits. This will be the only unit to go outdoors, over the next week it will be fully operated with all 40 on-board customer batteries being discharged and recharged daily. With rain on the way we’ll also be able to verify the weather sealing. So far it has travelled well over the road (and several speed bumps) as we heavily modified the suspension. We have about 110 battery packs to finish building to populate the last three trailers and should be on schedule with our estimated completion date of next week. A couple of days of packaging and wrapping should have them ready for the high seas. More to follow as I get some test results from unit 1.
A few specs:
Solar = 1470 watts (six Sharp 245’s)
Estimate daily production = 6800 watt hours
Daily requirement = 4500 watt hours
Station battery storage capacity = 9750 watt hours
Charges 20 batteries every 4 hours (40 total per day)
Self-regulation for MPPT, low voltage cutoff and battery charging
1 NPS-1000 rectifier for boost charging if a generator is available
15 minute setup and breakdown
13’ long, 6’ wide, 7’ high, 3000 lbs