We finally insulated the 1000-litre tank this morning with 100mm mineral wool plus a tarpaulin cover. Before this, the tank was un-insulated, which benefited us as it cooled overnight and allowed us to perform repetitive tests. It will be interesting to see how well the tank performs, and heat accumulates.
The tank is a 1 cubic metre IBC. It’s outside, at the bottom of a scaffold tower with two test panels at the top.
The initial board tests yielded promising results, with only a minor issue identified relating to tracing to an ESD protection diode array. Despite this hiccup, I’m quite satisfied with the progress so far… yet, as Read more…
The system we developed is modular, with modules connected on a 2-wire data bus, with an additional 2 wires for power. Up until now, we have generally used premade pcbs connected to our own boards Read more…
The testing that we did earlier paid off. We had a nicely working prototype with a couple of collectors. That wasn’t enough, so we built a 10-collector array on some welded scaffolding. Our problem is Read more…