Accident on the way

Hi,
We left the Totem on the roof for some days to check tha stability of it. Unfortunately Sunday a little wind made some bad effects on the system.We'll adjust it soos (I hope). No problem for solar panel.

Photo one: a general vision; you can see the weather station, the panel and the "airplan"

Phototwo: the result

Schedule for the measures (2)

Hi there, in this short video I'm trying to show you what we are doing; we hope to finish the job next week; we have not solve the problem of data, but a step by step....
Stefano

Meeting (2) - up to date

dear Friends,
this is the situation until now:

France: 5 students (3 females and 2 males) aged 16 are coming with 3 teachers. They'll arrive wed 18th leaving dom 22nd

Scotland: 2 students (one male and one fenale) aged 15 are coming with 2 teachers. (dates still open)

Germany: 2 or three students with 2 teachers (dates still open)

Could send me (by mail) names of students?

ciao Stefano

Weather Station

Hi there,

Here our weather station on the roof of the school. It misure wind, temperature and rain.

In a couple of weeks (or less) the "Totem" will be there (we need to paint the wind generator)

Stefano, Fabio and Antonio

Schedule for the measures

Hi folks,

here we are again, Emilie and me from France. So, we would like to know whereabouts you are concerning the measuring. We have ordered a second datalogger to have one for the wind turbine and another one for the solar panel. We imagine to start the logging in April. Capucine is trying to understand how to store data etc. If anybody of you has some good hints to give, just go ahead. Thanx!

That's it for now, ciao a tutti, Matthias and Emilie

Toolbox 2

Hi everybody,

before our holidays begin, I send you a last post about the wind turbine.
Fisrt, We 've painted the wood so that it resists the bad weather.

Our technician helped us a lot by puting it on a pole with a ball bearing for the rotation. He took the ball bearing from an old wheel of trash can!




Then we decided to fix the datalogger on the turbine to avoid the wires to roll around the pole. This way, the electric contact shall always be maintained. You can see the metal piece on wich we will fix the datalogger on the next two photos. We hope the weight of the datalogger won't be a problem ...

And we should install the wind turbine on the roof after our holidays, at the beginning of March.

I hope this can help you with your own installation,
ciao,
Emilie

Orientation of the solar Panel

Hi friends,

The orientation of the panel is very important for the project:the best orientation for all the school is not the same orientation.
It depends from the latitude and the season.

Here an interesting site with a lot of informations about the solution of the problem.
Please have a look and then we can decide the best orientation. our latitude is 45°N

http://www.macslab.com/optsolar.html

stefano italy