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CaptainBoing

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Posted: 01:49pm 08 Mar 2025
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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

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Posted: 02:06am 10 Mar 2025
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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
wronger than a phone book full of wrong phone numbers
 
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