I don’t post anymore, don’t have an account.

Yap, I nuked it too

Lol, you inspire me dude

27 / M / Tanzania

Pick up any trash that I touch/step on/kick and dispose of it into the nearest bin.

This started from the bottles and soda cans kicking, I just loved how they sound when kicked to the max. I still do to this day :)

My dad hated it so much. He probably smacked my young tush once or twice for that. So i would pick the dirty bottles and cans if he’s in the vicinity and kick them hard out far back. Yap, I know how silly this is. He still heard the kick sounds, tho LoL

So he came with a truce: “You wanna kick bottles? Fine. You kick a bottle, you ensure a proper disposal of it on the bin.”

He even gave me a tactic to kick them higher up that day LoL, thanks, dad.

Haven’t plugged in a VGA cable in a long time.

Exactly. What have you done to HDMI and DP ports?

Lol Exuberation

Agreed

“Hey, we talked about this. You stick with the 52 states while I herd my broken heart down south”

That, but with everyone you love

Agreed. You will have to move state to state after three decades. New identity, new job, basically new “life” so as not to raise any suspicions.

You do not wanna spend the rest of the eternity being a state government “lab rat”

I believe there’s a movie about this.

LoL investing and compounding! I literally have all the time in the world.

And robocop was born

A flamethrower might work too.

That’ll do it

Lol, Commander in Chief, giving instructions. Got it.

Oof, 5k? Thanks for the insight

Edit: On further reading, I noted that the package is 400 watts of solar.

I got approx 1kw on my roof and 9.6kw of batteries, so… five-figures dollars 😬

The original plan was extending to about 1.5kw, but then I thought having tiltable 1.5kw will be significantly better

That’s why I decided to tackle the tilting problem first.

Thanks for bringing roboteos on my radar.

Both the tree and the flat are now gone. A multi million dollar new build is there now.

SO PISSED AT THIS. God the company men…

Thanks, this is probably one-axis (west to east) solution, but it’s the only less complex solution that is easy to automate, maintain, and handle off-roading(when retracted flat, of course)

It definitely beats parking the van facing north and reparking again at noon to face south.

You only gotta worry about greasing that central gigantic screw, as IMO is the only vulnerable point exposed to the elements.

The actuators and motors are splash proof. They will also be protected on the metal case when fully retracted and moving at highway speeds

Thanks, I was looking for a portable dual axis solar tilt solution to capture more electricity from the sun from my rooftop.

If it was heat, I would have just moved to a higher altitude place with a bonus of fresh, cool air.

My van is white, BTW ;)

so far i landed on a sketch.

Have a Crack at the design integrity Engineers :)

Cause f*** you why not Lol

TL-DR: I want dual axis solar array on my hiace rooftop

Explanation:

This video clearly states the advantage of having this feature on your solar, gives you more than 8 hrs of peak power (8:00 - 17:00) with a comparatively small surface area (perfect for space-concious application), compared to about 5 hrs laying it down flat (10:00 - 15:00)

And yes, I get it. A 30% increase in energy collection daily isn’t significant to justify the maintenance that can come with actuation.

But as a guy living in a van full-time, 30% is the difference between having 2 ceiling fans on for an hr and 5 hrs through the night. Yap, full blast, it’s hot here.

Further more; this video show-cases the single axis solar array, Then I started wondering, if it reaches high noon, this guy will have to I dunno, turn his car around? So that the solar panels can actuate another way around.

Surely there is a solution to this somewhere… right?