OutBack Zone and Kangaroo Friends- The Sun Foil

Warble's Sun-Foil Project with Kangaroo Kevin:

 This is a solar panel for your car, lessening the charge source needed by the alternator. Warble has explained here it takes 4 to 8 hp to charge a battery, where after each start a battery would need a running time of 45 min to fully recharge. This also shortens the battery life without being able to be fully recharged. The Sun-Foil uses solar cells to keep the battery at a constant full charge eliminating the short trip problem of the alternator charging also with that your conserving power that otherwise would be used to charge your battery, a fuel saving is achieved.  Also, The Sun-Foil is keeping the battery at a full charge state, the life of the battery is improved. 

 Take a look at, "Sun-Foil Short-Talk" to get the method of calculating the optimum PV size, for Spark-Ignition Engined Vehicles, whereas Diesels need the Biggest Panel that'll fit on the Vehicle without looking silly... (Diesels, particularly "Passenger Diesels" have a 30 Amp Glowplug per Cylinder....; 20 Seconds preStart, then 3 MINUTES After Coldstarting..).  And, for the Raw Data, "Sun-Foil Science...." is worth checking out... 

I sent Warble a message on PV size,  PV?  Here's his response:

Thanks mate, um, yeah ; sorry about the jargon... 

PV = Photo Voltaic (Panel, or Array)... Basically, I measure the Battery Drain while parked (Stereo Memory, Dashboard Clock, Central Locking, Burglar Alarm, Engine Management Computer), then multiply by 24 (full Day parked), then add 1% of the Battery's Rated Capacity (to allow for Sulphation)... 

That the Minimum Daily Discharge/Deficit, in Amp Hrs....; & the Minimum Daily Recharge will be 1.1 x the Discharge - whatever that is.  My Subaru sucks 0.1 of an Amp, & it's a 95 A/Hr (Reserve/Rated Capacity) Battery. So, 2.4 + 0.95 = 3.35 A/Hrs out, thus it needs 3.68 A/Hr per day, just to sit still & do nothing. 

So, divide the Min. Recharge by 2, & that's the Optimum PV size in Amps Output. So my Subaru's 1.7 Amp Panel will deliver a full day's recharge in 2 Hrs of Sunshine, or 10 Hours of a Rainy Day, or anything in between.  And the Car seems to burn 212 mls of Fuel per Amp-Hr from the Alternator .  

So, 5.33 Liters per week not burned, at $1.617/Litre, so $8.61/wk. Or, 5 months to pay back the cost of PV, Cable, Charge Controller & Fuse... The record payback time was a 20 Watt PV on a V-6 Petrol Ford Explorer 4WD Automatic, in City Traffic...; $138, in 7 & a half weeks. 

Alrighty then, that's no bullshit.

 SunFoil Short Talk (The Numbers)

 SunFoil Science

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Outback Zone Modern Day Wannabe Aborigine

Here's a fella living in the Australian Outback like a modern day Aborigine. WarblesOnAlot lives on an endangered species sanctuary and allows him to be the gatekeeper of feeding the Kangaroos'.  The man is a survivalist and with that comes engineering of what you have! He has created a small power supply that stores the Sunlight as D.C. in the Batteries, but the Inverter then pumps 240 Volt AC to the Hut & the Shed. He mentions "there's no better way in conserving water, then carrying it, before you get to use it".  Warble gets evolved in many experiments (check out Permanent Magnets)  which he posted on his channel, some work others don't, that's science.  He touches on philosophy, other cultures, for instance, he has remarked the USA as "The Excited States", that's a good one.  Warbles just might be the real "Kangaroo Jack".

From a fella Down Under, WarblesOnAlot

About:

WarblesOnALot was created to spread the word of his SunFoil creation. The SunFoil is a solar panel with its own charge controller, plugged into a car's battery, saving fuel by lessening the load on the alternator.

As time went on WarblesOnALot also became a vlog, with videos of handfed kangaroos, birds and wallabies as well as many other random subjects, from aeroplanes to windmills to bleeding trees to philosophy. Subscribe if you dare.

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