Wednesday 23 February 2011

Implementing solar and wind generated energy on a smaller scale

With the design of a portable, movable and lightweight scooter display trailer comes a few important issues.

For example, if the stand is set up at a point where there is no electricity and needs to function at night time, u will be faced with a problem as to how u will supply energy to power the lights and any other electrical systems on the stand.

Richard Krige stated that he would incorporate solar pannels in his design of the stand to charge the electrical scooter he has chosen for this task.

If your design includes lights and electrical motors to move or rotate objects a simple 12v battery won't do the trick and u'll have to come up with an alternate solution.

Suplying the electricity with a generator will obviously make to much noise and is thus not a feasable idea.
An option I have given some thought is to have the scooter tested by potential buyers on a conveyer belt simular to a treadmill with the scooter fixed at a point leaving the buyer or tester with a semi-realistic feel of the scooter itself.  Whilst the scooter is riden on the conveyer belt, the belt could drive a dinamo which charge the battery's therefore solving the electricity problem.