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Renewable Energy Photo Gallery A Florida Tech loaned PV panel at the Grant Sea Food Festival. This system ran a VCR/TV set at the Trailpartners booth. The wind turbine was too sheltered by trees in this area to do any more than attract attention. The metered battery box to the left shows the voltage and charge current.
The pedal cycle shown below can charge a 12 V battery at 6 amps.
Below is the Air-X 400 watt turbine by Southwest Windpower. We have two of these for remote wind-solar energy sites. We are now constructing a trailer test station for one of these PV-wind systems.
Florida Tech Renewable Energy Campus Test Station We now have had a large crane lift one of our 400W ASE of America PV module to the roof of Roberts Hall. This seven-floor building has an elevator room on top and the WFIT radio tower is next to it.
Three of these photovoltaic modules were generously donated by ASE of America in support of our "Wind/Solar Energy Under Sea Breeze Conditions" study. The panel has since been better secured on the roof while awaiting the preparation of the mounting frame. This rooftop is proposed for a 1000W Southwest Windpower H-80 wind turbine. At some 125 feet above ground, the turbine will sense the winds at a level commensurate with the rotor of a utility-scale turbine of much greater rotor diameter. We shall correlate the PV and wind energy available under sea breeze influence.
This high-lift crane was here to lift a satellite antenna for Florida Tech's radio station, WFIT, which can be heard on the Internet at http://www.fit.edu/CampusLife/clubs-org/wfit/. Our Facilities supervisor approved lifting our 107-pound panel to the roof while the crane was available. Florida Tech Renewable Energy Link Building Test Station This small amateur wind turbine sampled energy at the Link Building. Below the turbine is a 30 W PV module. We have been sampling voltage and current produced by each sensor to provide input to a CSI datalogger. In the background (right of the Crawford Building) is a Davis Weather Station that records data for comparison. A typical Florida storm front is dramatically approaching from the west. The local wind is from the southeast, however.
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