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Title: Solar Car |
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Date: 2013-04-27 |
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Category: Projects |
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Summary: About my time volunteering with the University of Calgary Solar Car Team, where I designed a maximum power point tracker. |
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I joined the University of Calgary Solar Car Team in my first semester for a |
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chance to learn things, gain practical experience, and meet people that share my |
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interests. The car was the top Canadian team in a 3000 km race from Darwin to |
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Adelaide, Australia in 2011. We met up at a shop on campus every Saturday |
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morning to work on the new Generation IV of the solar car. |
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## The Helianthus MPPT |
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I was in charge of designing and assembling the MPPTs (maximum power point |
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trackers) for the new generation solar car. An MPPT extracts as much power out |
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of the solar cells as possible. The solar array operates less efficiently |
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without them. The Generation IV car, Schulich Delta (pictured below) uses seven |
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of them: one per section of solar cells with similar lighting conditions. Andrei |
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and I designed the MPPT above. |
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