LOL! Good point. You might need a Honda generator
running most of the night. Yep, clean green motorgliding.
Lange Antares has been around for a while. I
think it was the first PRODUCTION electric SLG.
Uses some Saft V44 Li-ion cells. 72 of them I
think. Lots of very careful cell management is
required. There are microprocessors all over the
battery pack and they report to Germany via the cell phone network.
Silent Electro uses the FES system. Someone
should really put one in a Silent Targa 2 as a
retractable installation to compare performance with the front mounted FES.
Mike
At 10:26 AM 9/19/2016, you wrote:
Umm. I believe solar panels don't work so well overnight.
Not in australia anyway ð
Kind Regards
David Holmes
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> On 19 Sep 2016, at 10:24, DMcD <slutsw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> HA,
>
> There's an interesting article in the current S&G about a casual comp
> done in Italy, flown with the Silent Electro. Was this the world's
> first electric SLG? I know it proceeded things like the Antares by
> almost a decade.
>
> Anyway, the innovation with the comp was that they were allowed to use
> the motor during the comp and motor runs were counted in the overall
> score. From memory, the Silent could do about 8000' of climbing with a
> full charge (on new batteries no doubt). So this would mean one launch
> and two or three retrieves which is pretty much all you need for most
> comp or safari flying.
>
> With an ultralight glider, you could probably do all the recharging
> overnight with Aldi solar panels.
>
> As far as noise levels go, the first electrics failed EASA noise level
> checks because they did not appear on the scale.
>
> D
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