saw this and thought it was interesting

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CaptainBoing Guru Joined: 07/09/2016 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 2171	Posted: 01:49pm 08 Mar 2025       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1pFP2a4xqg bit light on technical info but here is the techincial paper he used white paper Edited 2025-03-08 23:59 by CaptainBoing
poida Guru Joined: 02/02/2017 Location: Australia Posts: 1476	Posted: 02:06am 10 Mar 2025       what an interesting read! make a heating element that is nearly constant voltage over a wide range of current drawn. so, design it to work at the solar array's MPP and that's that. probably all heating elements are purely resistive. this load is bad for getting the most energy from a solar array. Edited 2025-03-10 12:42 by poida