You'll get about 1 Kw of solar panels on the roof
of a trailer. You might average 500 watts unless
you tilt them to face the sun and move them every
couple of hours from sunrise to when you fly. Say
6 hours and 800 watts average. Might just do a
4Kw-hour battery in a Silent. Assuming clear sky
>>I think it was the first PRODUCTION electric SLG. See WIDOLA of that year.
There was an electric Silent 1 for sale in around 2007. The Antares
was the first heavyweight production glider. From memory, the original
Silent had a pylon mounted motor.
So far as solar panels go at night… most flying
you just put nice bright lights on the solar panels at night…simple :-)
> On 19 Sep 2016, at 10:24 AM, DMcD 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 kno
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 i
Umm. I believe solar panels don't work so well overnight.
Not in australia anyway 😜
Kind Regards
David Holmes
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> On 19 Sep 2016, at 10:24, DMcD wrote:
>
> HA,
>
> There's an interesting article in the current S&G about a casual comp
> done in Italy, flown wi
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
t
competition sites will need to reticulate power and water
loss of tug fees may be a issue, but what is the profit per comp on average for
fees on a fully costed model?
I assume electric self launchers are quieter?
> On 18 Sep 2016, at 10:24 AM, Mike Borgelt
> wrote:
>
> Even with the new
